Absolutely agree, it’s a damn good museum. Terrible thing to say but it’s not the planes which make the museum, it’s the imaginative and informative way they are presented. The fact it’s amazing airframes is a bonus. The vickers k game wasted quite a bit of my cash to.

It really is an impressive piece of work. The book about it is a good read too, with lots of detail photos. I read on the net somewhere that the Brewster plant was so badly organised there was a machine at the end of the production line to turn the Corsairs over and shake the loose bits out. Sounds too bad to be true. They certainly lost the contract. It is true that the yanks gave most of the Brewster builds to us though.

It was a very early loss, P47 42-8420 abandoned by Capt R C Durlin, 15th September 1943. Lost coming back from an escort mission to the Paris area. Some interesting pieces came out, mainly engine and ancilliaries. The plane hit solid shale at about eight feet so the recovery crew didn’t have too difficult a job. Weather awful. Devon cream teas and pasties top notch. Hospitality faultless, the farmer was a really good bloke.

Hello Mr Noodle. The Vulcan was XA909 of 101 Sqn Waddington and it came down on 16th July 64 at Gwalchmai. Unusally everyone got out of it. There is lots of detail in Roy Sloan’s ‘Anglesey Air Accidents’ book.

There was a B36 at Boscombe, though I think it skidded to a halt within the boundary. The one at Lacock came down all over the place (the crew dropped into three counties), not just in the wood but has been fairly well picked over. Wartime alloy corrodes badly but the magnesium alloy a B36 was made from doesn’t last well at all. It was the biggest aircraft to crash in the UK though, going by wingspan.

These are my favourite bits. Both from P7533. The exhibition with most of the rest of it is still on at Fort Perch Rock museum, New Brighton. Well worth a look!