If your going for the PDF route then you are probably better off spreading it over months or years of service to save having a big PDF file.

Indeed I can confirm too that the tip structure of the wing was partly made of wood. There are also straps of wood found in the cocpit and fuselage at various points.

Kev,

Thank you for still caring and remembering all these years later.

I myself have no one such individual that I visit each year but each year I choose and activity to carry out in remeberance.

Last year it was a visit to the crash site of Spitfire AR403 where we had our silence.

The year before that it was a visit to the memorial of the Ferny Ness accident in which a number of naval ratings and bus driver were killed. 14 or 16 people I cant remember which. We ended up trimming all the bushes and trees back and edging the grass around the pavement. I can assure you it the best the memorial has looked in years.

This year I plan to visit Athelstaneford Parish Churchyard in which 3 members of RAF are buried. They died between 1918 and 1919. Probably all flying from East Fortune.

One thing that strikes me about this thread is how cooperative all the posters were at the time. Something that I havent seen repeated often on this forum since. I too remember this thread with interest and it is wonderful to see that hasnt been forgotten.

I wonder if anyone else will pick up on this thread in another 3 or 4 years or maybe even 10 or 20 years.

I am getting the live feed through my wireless no problem. It does come in and out.

Apparently the BBC are doing a docu to be shown in about a month.

Running through checklist.

Good communication between Stratos control and Capsule.

That’s interesting seeing as it’s on my doorway. I was told a few years ago that there where 26 air crashes within a 3 mile air radius of Bassett by an historian. I often wonder whether this is true.

I would think that figure would be a decent ball park figure but could possibly be even more.

Mind you given that its only a 3 mile radius that is quite a high number.