Having been impressed with your Sabreliner yoke, Nick, this appeared on evilbay and had to be bought. I do like the NA logo. The Pensacola sticker suggests a Navy example.
Did anyone here get the Meteor grip which finished today? Nice but expensive…
I believe the Lightning was recovered by the Warplane Aircraft Recovery Group. I don’t think it’s at their museum at Sleap. I was suprised to see the remains of the Boston at the museum in Norwich Airport last summer. The last time I’d seen it was in 1979! I’m sure there was a post here regarding it’s scrapping straight after recovery. Thankfully not true. It has lost it’s undercarriage though.
A nicely identifiable piece there Brian. Not much to add! Interesting that even Vultee were given captured bits to study. Presumably they didn’t learn much from it.
A couple were modified as anti invasion aircraft. They had a 20mm canon strapped to the outside of each wheel spat, as well as the .303s within! I think they had a smooth gun button though so yes, Spitfire.
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