Graeme,

You are a master of the understatement!

”I looked to the right and noticed the wing was no longer there”

”Luckily I was wearing a parachute”

”It’s a nice feeling to look up and see the parachute has opened”

What an incredible story, you must have felt you had been born again after all that. I often think of that incident when I go past Dunstable, or sit up on the Downs.

I trust your next flight will be more mundane!

Where was the dump located? Was it near the woods?

Ok ,fair play to the BBC then.

I reckon they called it about right, in this instance.

Hi KK,

Great to get some feedback. I know the site well, living just a few miles away.
Are you able to expand a little more on this, about your dad and his crew, and how subsequent events unfolded?

Mosi was at Bovingdon I think, still hanging around after 633 Sqdn.

Welcome to the forum SD Plissken. As a small matter of ‘housekeeping’ we generally try not to dig up old threads that have run their course, though there are of course sometimes exceptions. Still, you have obviously got the hang of the ‘search’ facility! 😉

The way they are reporting this, it could still be a good outcome. I imagine that for the volunteers the primary thing is to see their efforts come to fruition and take to the air.

Ambitious projects running out of cash is a universal story right know, and does not by default show the whole enterprise in a bad light. I hope that those who give their time are treated with appropriate gratitude, and that it does not end in ill feeling, as was the case with the Spitfire disposed of by a UK museum in a semi-restored state.

Being able to fly a 262…

jim harley

That will be quite something. What’s the story there? Do tell.

Nice Photo btw.

best preserved Hawker Tempest II in existence. Should you be looking for a Sea Fury, the Tempest will not be a comparable purchase.

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I interpret that as meaning that the vendor believes that this airframe is (price-wise) not in the same league as a Fury, ie more expensive. I would not be surprised if they are expecting £500.000 ! ;):rolleyes:.

Rare aircraft are hard to value. It would be interesting to see, for instance, what the unique contra-prop Seafire 47 would make. Maybe not as much as a stock P.51…….