Is this not the T14 Gull II (2-seater)?

Now, if you breath in when I breath out, we should both be able to get in.

Prangins, June 2009

Is this by Sablier?

My translation of the comment. I take no responsibility for the “too slow” bit, nor the “Fortunately” it turned over! It’s in the original (not very good) French!

I just heard about the accident to Christophe Jacquard’s Spitfire at Dijon. It should have left for a meeting at Nurnberg but it went U/S. Then the pilot flooded the engine, but managed to start the Griffon. The Spitfire took off but the pre-start engine problem happened again making the pilot do a circuit and land, but according to the video the approach was too slow, he bounced and the propeller touched the grass runway. Fortunately the aeroplane turned over but the end of the propeller was broken off. We don’t yet know the extent of the damage but on obvious security grounds the Spitfire will be grounded for two months to allow a complete revision of the Griffon hoping that the shock has not damaged the crankshaft and the bounce has not damaged the undercarriage. With the Sea Fury under maintenance we might well not see M Jacquard’s aircraft before the end of the season.

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The grave of a black dog, Scampton, 2009.
The commemorative plaque was away for cleaning.

dko: by “today’s social climate” I was referring to the widespread unrest in Egypt over the last few days. That is, indeed, different from what happened in the “Arab Spring”. It may even be difficult to get permission to look for remains in the desert, let alone export them legally. The idea of “three RAF pilots,young and brave” being “abandoned or parachuted” in the desert would be hard to sell at this time.

Jack: “is this not a ready made excuse, for our embassy doing nothing?” I was already told last year that the Embassy was busy with other problems, presumably related to the Arab Spring. If you remember what I said a few months ago, the Defence Attaché informed me that the case was “closed”.

I however applaud any legal attempt to recover Dennis Copping’s remains.

Thanks for your comment ked01, and welcome to the Forum.

I have continued to try to sort out what is happening, if anything, in this sad story, and the latest is that the MOD say they know nothing about the supposed two sets of bones (see my posts earlier), but that as far as they are concerned bones from the site were tested by an Egyptian laboratory and found not to yield any DNA to permit identification.

We are going round in circles, and we can get nowhere in our attempt to unravel this sad puzzle.

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