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  • May 6, 2013 at 11:20 am in reply to: Moths at Woburn website goes live #1000672
    l.garey
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    I may be able to attend. If I come to the UK then it will be via easyJet to Luton, so not too far! Keep us posted lowly and slowly.

    May 6, 2013 at 9:58 am in reply to: Lancaster recovery in Normandy #1000784
    l.garey
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    In the end I left my book and listened to Mr Graves. After a short opening picture of a Halifax (!) he gives an account on the Lancasters’ missions that D-Day. Near the end he discusses the crew’s fate: “We didn’t find a thing”. He suggests the bodies were buried elsewhere, and he would like to know where.

    May 6, 2013 at 9:48 am in reply to: Lancaster recovery in Normandy #1000791
    l.garey
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    Thanks Versuch. It seems to be this one. Like Andy I am working on a book and will watch it later today!

    http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/extraminutes/8645427/lancaster-739-extended-interview

    May 6, 2013 at 7:25 am in reply to: Lancaster recovery in Normandy #1000828
    l.garey
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    Thanks for the information, Versuch. I wonder if there is a link to that programme that we could see.

    PS: while searching I just found this:
    http://somethingverybig.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/lancaster-739-60-minutes-crashes-and-cover-ups/

    May 3, 2013 at 5:11 pm in reply to: New dh Vampire for the UK ! #1003216
    l.garey
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    Re airworthy single-seaters: J-1197, HB-RVN, is based at Sion in Switzerland. Seen here at Geneva in 2009.

    April 30, 2013 at 5:58 am in reply to: The All New 2013 "Wot Plane" (see post 4 for rules) #1006746
    l.garey
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    Macchi AL60C?

    April 25, 2013 at 1:18 pm in reply to: And Now For Something Completely Different Thread MK3 #1011214
    l.garey
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    Inside a Comet. Mk 2R G-AMXA/XK655 at Sharjah 2008

    April 20, 2013 at 6:47 am in reply to: And Now For Something Completely Different Thread MK3 #1015740
    l.garey
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    Wessex HAS1 XS881 CU-344 June 1968, off Portsmouth

    April 18, 2013 at 1:15 pm in reply to: The All New 2013 "Wot Plane" (see post 4 for rules) #934833
    l.garey
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    It was always the case that advertisements were visible unless signed in. Now, the problem is the loss of all our pictures!

    April 17, 2013 at 5:16 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #935185
    l.garey
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    No, Andy, I’m not making it up! It reminds me of some of the stories in your book “Finding the Few”. We seem to be going back several decades.
    As to your questions: no further response from the MOD except to thank me for my conversation yesterday, which seems to have clarified some details for them.
    The “Italian” bones: as far as I know from what they have said (the Italians) yes, they are still left where found, untested, but I can’t prove that of course.
    Have the “new” bones been associated with the P-40? I have no idea, nor does the MOD, I was told. I only learned about them yesterday. I don’t even know who found them, nor what they actually are.
    Re the DA and “London” (or is it Innsworth?): that’s right.
    The family seem to be the last people to be informed of anything, and that is very regrettable.

    April 17, 2013 at 10:32 am in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #935345
    l.garey
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    I was able to speak to someone at the MOD yesterday, and am even more confused than ever now. The story is that after the Defence Attaché in Cairo sent me an email to say that the bones had been tested and that the Egyptian authorities had found no extractable DNA, and the DA thus declared the “case closed”, I contacted the MOD, as the evidence still was that the bones found 8 km from the crash site had been reburied there and never tested. Finally yesterday I spoke to the MOD, and my contact was as confused and concerned as I, for the story now is that some bones WERE indeed tested in Egypt and found unsuitable, but that they were perhaps NOT the bones found by the Italian ARIDO team. I have no idea where these bones came from and nor apparently does the Ministry! I shall keep working on this complete mystery. Something that seems so simple to resolve is turning out to be VERY complicated.

    April 15, 2013 at 6:39 am in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #936229
    l.garey
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    Jack Windsor:
    As I said earlier, the MOD should contact me AFTER 9 April. We both tried to phone each other last week but failed to connect. I hope today then, but cannot promise anything. I shall keep you posted.

    April 15, 2013 at 6:33 am in reply to: And Now For Something Completely Different Thread MK3 #936232
    l.garey
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    Used to contrarotate. Kaman Huskie (among other things) at Karachi PAF Museum dump

    April 9, 2013 at 8:33 am in reply to: The All New 2013 "Wot Plane" (see post 4 for rules) #939815
    l.garey
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    I shall try to get back into the thread when I get home in a week or so. In the meantime, as we discussed several times, if you do not have a real chestnut, why not post an obvious one with a request for where, when or why?

    April 6, 2013 at 6:08 pm in reply to: The All New 2013 "Wot Plane" (see post 4 for rules) #941885
    l.garey
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    I thought you might say that, Monsieur Avion!
    Sorry, I am really snowed under at the moment, between trying to rescue the remains of the Egyptian Kittyhawk pilot (see the thread), translating two books, and preparing for going away tomorrow. I promise next time I recognise one of your smudgy, out-of-focus, grainy b&w offerings, I shall play the game.
    Didn’t even get time to go to Andy’s Shoreham jolly.
    Go ahead please!

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