‘The aircraft would need to made ready for a one off A to B ferry flight which would involve some work and cost, elsewhere in the world this would not be a issue, unfortunatly the aircraft is in the UK’

Really ? Which countries can you think of that are going to allow you to fly a bomber aircraft that hasn’t flown for thirty two years ? Are you expecting that its just needs a quick BF and fly it? Its completely bonkers .

how long had ”Hawg Wild” been grounded before flying to the UK?

For once Moggy we agree on something, I may be a fool, but if i’m confronted by anyone I put my my head down and I fight, its what made us Brits great! before we were diluted !

Until just 18 months ago I lived on the site of that scrap yard at ketley Bank, it was developed by Jennings Homes in the late 90’s and is now covered in Houses, but I remember being off work with glandular fever and watching some long forgotten daytime TV program when a low loader went past my window with the remnants of a large wooden three bladed propeller , a very corroded wing which I was almost certain was Tempest/fury including a skeletal rudder and tailplane assembly and a lot of other sizeable aircraft structure, and even though I felt like death warmed up I put my boots on to go and chat to the site foreman who I had built quite a rapport with, very handy when you require further slabs, cement etc and he told me it had all been dug out the previous week or so, Jennings had apparently spoken to the RAFM at Cosford and they’d shown little or no interest in the cache. and the lot was being taken for scrap by a staffs based company, I trawled the area on numerous dog walks for weeks after and did indeed find a few small fragments of what might have been Aircraft bits, but nothing as mouth watering as id seen on that truck one afternoon in February.

EXcellent, BTW

It will be a Medevac, not a Casevac, A Casevac is from a battlefied, a Medevac is from one place to another point of treatment.

He will be giving the prop a good bootful to get it off the splines.

Does it really matter?? the photos are fanatastic! I hope you find more!

I think its a Bedford, I had one her at the garage until about 1988 and I was approached by an enthusiast who couldn’t wait to part with his cash! ended up selling him the Austin gipsy that had lain around for forty years as well! I think he was from the Cambs area, is this the one? the small windows above the door windows were an odd characteristic.

the next time her tyres leave terra firma they will very likely be on the back of a low loader!

Have we forgot the DC6 that’s at Coventry?, no not the diner, G-APSA, she’s very recoverable, she’s big, ok, Not British, but its a lovely aircraft and it could carry fare paying pax as well? why don’t we look at getting that old lady back in the fluffy stuff?