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  • July 7, 2012 at 10:27 am in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #964764
    l.garey
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    Don’t worry qattara. Your English is better than my Italian!
    Just 2 points:
    1. You say: From our sources we know for a fact that Col Collins is NEVER went there, and did not even know where it is!

    Do you mean he still has not been there?

    2. You say: the material (slides, wp etc) is available to Colling and other authorities but then again no one has asked for anything more!
    I did ask you privately for photographs of the bones, as a fellow professional, but you told me that for ethical reasons you could not let me see them. I do not want them published on the forum (as this upsets some people, and the family might not wish it), but I would be very grateful to see copies by e-mail.

    July 7, 2012 at 6:57 am in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #965037
    l.garey
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    In post 1003 Dobbins linked to some video which was the first I had seen of the Curtiss plate with number 1035. I am not sure who took this video. Who actually identified that plate first?

    I have said it before and will say it again, I congratulate Daniele and the others in the Italian team for what they did, and for their work in other aspects of war graves in North Africa, but we are not yet at the final conclusion about the lost pilot.

    July 6, 2012 at 4:34 pm in reply to: Bristol Freighter info wanted #965975
    l.garey
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    flyernzl:
    “Arise, my love, and come with me” is a poem by James Casey (1940). Before the nose of the Bristol 170, it adorned a B-24 (42-50768).
    http://www.b24bestweb.com/arisemyloveandcomewithme1.htm

    July 6, 2012 at 4:19 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #965985
    l.garey
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    That’s just it Jim. I think everyone would agree with that. First one needs to find human remains, then they need to be identified as belonging to the unfortunate pilot. So far, our Italian friends seem to have found a few human bones, although I, for one, have not seen the evidence. Then we need to do certain tests (eg DNA examination) to link them to a given person. The second should not be too difficult: the problem is the finding of substantial remains.

    July 5, 2012 at 11:40 am in reply to: Crashed cropduster, UAE #967816
    l.garey
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    Thanks Eric. That looks like it. It could well have been at Khor Fakkan! The black anti-glare has gone, but not surprising if it was sitting there for nearly 20 years. That’s my truck in the background!

    July 5, 2012 at 10:36 am in reply to: Crashed cropduster, UAE #967959
    l.garey
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    Thanks for that. My “Pawnee” included the Brave variant. I thought the larger rear window was the clue. But I cannot find any sort of Pawnee on the UAE register.

    July 5, 2012 at 10:05 am in reply to: The New "Wot Plane" Thread (For The Rules Of The Game, See Post #1) #967978
    l.garey
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    Assuming that I identified the last “wot” correctly (thanks Laurence), here’s the picture for the next round – this time a detail picture.

    Thomas

    Oh, it’s not for me to say you got it! Simply I saw the link and it SEEMS to be OK. It’s the prerogative of L4x2 to give the go ahead. Maybe I butted in too fast! Sorry.

    July 5, 2012 at 7:47 am in reply to: The New "Wot Plane" Thread (For The Rules Of The Game, See Post #1) #968145
    l.garey
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    Well done. I’m just butting in to say:
    http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=G-AYSH

    (except that the exhaust pipe has changed!)

    July 3, 2012 at 5:18 pm in reply to: A ride in a Tandem Tutor #970575
    l.garey
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    Thanks for the photos. They bring back memories of my introduction to gliding at Hawkinge in 1958.

    July 3, 2012 at 5:02 pm in reply to: Spitfire C.O.G.E.A OO-ARC/NH188 #970590
    l.garey
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    I took this of OO-ARC at Middelkerke on 3 August 1959. The military serial SM-39 was still just visible.

    http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc39/apollo-fox/3859SpitIXOO-ARCsmall.jpg

    There were 6 Spitfires, 2 Proctors and 9 Meteor NF11s (in the OO-ARn series) parked out.

    July 3, 2012 at 11:14 am in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #971249
    l.garey
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    The Italian team apparently found a few bones (vertebrae, ribs, clavicle, small foot bones). However, we cannot know if they belong to the pilot until either more are recovered or DNA results are forthcoming.

    June 29, 2012 at 6:21 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #976223
    l.garey
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    In fact I am just watching the first part of the TV programme. Unfortunately will have to switch off now to go out.

    June 29, 2012 at 4:23 pm in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #976369
    l.garey
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    qattara: I wish I could see your TV programme tonight. I can get it here in Switzerland, but I shall be out tonight, so I will miss it. Can it be made available later?

    June 28, 2012 at 2:09 pm in reply to: 70 years ago – 28.06.42 – RIP F/Sgt Dennis Copping #978147
    l.garey
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    Next task: to bring him home

    June 27, 2012 at 8:16 am in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #979441
    l.garey
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    qattara: re the direction is: chief of ARIDO ASSOCIATION the Governing Council approved the dispatch of the Association avev giving us some diretive

    Thanks for clarifying.

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