I saw the Robs Lamplough one at Tangmere years ago , very faded early Spanish markings basicly in one piece but probably nothing more than a shell , it may have been a C or a D .

30+ years ago the substancial remains of a Fairey Gordon were recovered from the mountains on the South Island . It made Air Pictorial at the time but little or no news since.

A couple of years ago I got involved in assisting a widow to dispose of her husbands lifelong collection of aircraft models . To my surprise a couple of months ago she rang to say she had found some more boxes of stuff , as she was passing this way soon if I wanted she could drop them off , which she did . The bulk of what I was given was half a dozen biscuit boxes of articles and pictures torn out of magazines dating back to the early 1940’s and probably ending in the early 1970’s . I am in the process of sorting through them and getting them into some sort of order . I have found five different black and white photos of your aircraft . The scheme as depicted in the first three simulations is close but there are detail errors . I am not particularly clever with computers so do not know how to display photos but if you are interested in seeing them I could scan and email them for you . Alternatively the front cover of Air Pictorial March 1959 , pages 188 and 189 of Flight 6 February 1959 are the sources of some of the pictures .

A Chinook doing side stroke curious , seriously , looks like the finale to a successful water landing as the blades appear to be intaked .

The Subritsky Battle shows how the Australian Battles were cut in half to make sure they were never used again , I believe there are several forward fuselages like this around Australia .

From December 1977 “According to Mrs Burns book , Nine Lives Plus*the Satyr was repaired . In a recent conversation ( she is now aged 81 ) , she told me that the Satyr was ” half sold ” to a 19 year oldJapanese who took it to Belgium . During a flight in that country it is alleged that he inadvertently entered a spin from which he failed to recover . The pilot was killed and the aircraft was written off . Certainly the Satyr was removed from the civil register in September 1936 , but its ultimate fate needs confirmation . Can any reader help ? “
*Published by Pelham Books Ltd , 52 , Bedford Square , London WC1B price 4.50

While on the subject of the Battle could anyone please tell me how the Belgium Battle differed from the British aircraft and are there any pictures to show these ?