Hi Hatton,

When you get to Beantown(Boston) you must take a ride by Fenway Park and stop by the Bull and Finch (the Tv show Cheers bar)

Just South of Boston at Stow is The Collings foundation pop over to the Wix board and ask ryan to hook you up with a tour well worth the stop.

Also must go down to Boston harbor to see Old Ironside and the Bunkerhill Memorial.

When you get to Beantonw lets us know their are few of us New Englanders who could meet u with you at Stow’s.

Cheers
RER

Not an English type, it’s a French aircraft i believe, Dassault Toofani.

best regards, steve

Steve thanks,

So what is it a bomber,trainer ect.

Propstrike,

That is exactly what Scott is doing on the Warbird Resource Group main web site if you visit it will find it broken down to aircraft types.

I’m presentaly working on the Century fighters I know that their is someone working on Navions and Scott is going thru the T-6 files. If you are interested in working on the site send Scott and e-mail I’m sure he would be more then happy for any help. Just pick an aircraft and dive in he has a master file set up all you have to do is impute the information and paste.

Apart from the two that came to the UK, did any of the Heinkels actually leave Spain during the BoB film window?

Mark

Hi Mark12,

Acourding to The Battle of Britain the Making of a film by Leonard Mosley,

15 aircraft where sent to France for some film work and then 6 where flown to outside of Spain it really doesn’t say where and why. But in the opening chapter of the book it talks about the arrivial of the Heinkels and 109 on May 14 . It seems that they got a tad off course and decide to take an aerial tour of Cambridge University 😀

Hi Robbelc,

To give you an idea how many aircraft Doug had his hand in, between him and David Tallichet they are responsible for close to 400 aircraft saved.

Doug was a visionair person when it came to doing recoverys, he was the first to save alot of the WWI/between the War Englaish aircraft and single handly rescue close to 20+ Spitfire which in my opion seem to be his passion.

I beleive we will never see the likes of these two Gaints of the Warbird Communtie again.

One of the goals of the my book on the early collectors is to have an index of everything the major collectors owned.

Hi Dave,

No it wasn’t flown in, in fact it stood at a museum in the States for many years literally rotting away! The Lib was shipped to Duxford, and the work carried out on this airframe is a testament to Duxford’s conservation team, a first class piece of work! You’re right in saying it wasn’t there in 93, it went on display in the American Air Museum in 2003.

Planejunky,

No it wasn’t just roting away in some Museum it wa on outside display as Dave Burke at Lackland AFB TX which is a very dry climat. Have had the chance to visit the aircraft a few times before the big Steal 😡 the aircraft was in better counditin then alot of the stuff that DX has sitting outside.

This is still a very sore subject with alot of folks here in the States,alot of us feel that if they could build a Fiberglass copy for Lackland then why not just send Duxford the Copy make one for Lackland and then seel or trade the 24 to the Warbird Community. This 24 was the last 24 in USAF service used as a Weather Bird.

RER

Great book, classic stuff….only have a chapter of it in ‘Rag wings and Heavy Iron’, but have read it before and it’s hilarious….well worth whatever you pay for it.

Mark

Mark,

Yea Martin was one of a kind had the chance to fly with him when he still owned the JU-52 such fun.

If anyone wants to read a great book pick up Rag Wing and Heavy Iron its a great book on the early US Warbird movement.

RER

Well Mel,

Did we go don’t keep us all in suspence here, did Steve behave himself :diablo:

The World needs to know come on someone has to know something 😮

RER