Blenheim just now over Amersham heading S E.
” A Convair 340, registation ZS-BRV, crashed and broke up during a test flight out of Wonderboom Airport, reportedly carrying about 20 occupants.
During takeoff from Wonderboom Airport, the aircraft was seen trailing brown smoke from the no.1 engine. Eyewitnesses also reported observing flames. The pilot flew a circuit for an emergenncy landing back ton runway 29. It went down about 6 km to the east of the airport. The aircraft impacted a shed and broke up. One of the crew members sustained fatal injuries.
The aircraft had been donated by the owner, Rovos Air, to the Dutch aviation theme park Aviodrome. It carried the colour scheme of the former Dutch airline Martin’s Air Charter (later renamed Martinair) and was to be ferried to the Netherlands with an expected arrival at Lelystad Airport on July 23, 2018. ”
https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20180710-0
http://www.platinumfighters.com/race232
Ex N232J, one time resident at North Weald, with Robs Lamplough. Price seems reasonable, though engine needs overhaul, it says.
Make that ‘Catch 22”. Hanover Street was such a turkey, nobody would want to re-visit it !
I guess we will just have to sit tight, and see what intrique transpires. This might go all the way to the top. It certainly went right to the bottom !
Setting aside the issues in the minds of the doubters, I DO agree it is almost always better for people to attempt an endeavour and maybe not succeed, then do nothing, and by definition achieve nothing.
As a nation, we are quite a creative and energetic lot.
I am puzzled what is the motivation for ‘Team Lurky-Herky’ to keep returning here for these rather testy exchanges.
You don’t want us to ‘know’ but you do want people to follow your peanut trail to some online resource, but frankly, many people simply don’t have the time and patience to wade through archived radio broadcasts, for some nugget of opinion, which may or may not turn out to be interesting. That is a reasonable position.
I understand that diving is hard work, and expensive, and dangerous, but you could have just got on and done your stuff in private, and never troubled this forum, thus avoiding the tiresome people who keep asking how the investigation has progressed. You perhaps do not understand that for 18 years this forum has worked on the premise of people finding out, knowing, discussing, for nothing (££) .
You arrival here was, I perceive, a means to promote the project and hustle for money, with the kick starter campaign. Eschewing the conventions of discussion, your visits here are for the purpose of promoting/advertising alternative resources, and reminding us that as non-backers we will be kept pretty much out of the loop No doubt you have engaged with other forums in a similar manner.
Rightly or wrongly, your tone translates as ‘We know something that you don’t know ‘ , which engenders a degree of irritation.
I guess in time we will all get to know what you think you know, and whether it was worth knowing anyway.
”This is a typical English channel shipwreck – the sort of thing we are seeing a lot of right now,” he said.
“At this time we are working on long ranges and are able to cut a quarter of a mile swath across the seabed, and as we locate areas of possible interest we will revisit on a shorter ranger higher frequency for a better resolution and a clearer look.
“After that it is remote cameras, and finally very interesting targets – that may well turn out to be the Hercules – will be subject to the mark-one eyeball inspection i.e. a diver.”
The USAF plane was taken by Sergeant Paul A. Mayer from his base in Suffolk, apparently with the intention of flying home to his family in the US. But the exact fate of plane and pilot remain unclear – a mystery that Mr Knott and his team are hoping will be cleared by the discovery of the wreckage before the end of the summer. ” Dorset ECHO
In a nutshell.
Located some sort of unidentified wreckage on sea bed ( boat ? Plane? Flying Saucer? )
Advancement of knowledge on the Meyer Mystery – ZERO
This reminds me of the Burma Spitfires saga, when the PR and Press Releases just sort of became detached from the non-existent progress of ‘the task’.
!! ** NEWSFLASH ** !!
Today, there is no news
Umm…………..
That’s it…
As a card-carrying Keyboard expert AND armchair warrior, I am on standby for any updates.
We are ”genuinely interested in what’s going on” but Grahame, you won’t tell us !
Was Kermit Weeks present ? He certainly bought the Mosquito, of course, for a mere £100,000 ( as I recall ) .
This feels like click-bait. It is just a different kind of click. There is a strong whiff of Public Relations hokum, and I rather feel that we are being ‘played’.
You imply there is something pretty meaty to reveal, so I hope it does not turn out to be a rubber bone, as I don’t think I could handle the disappointment.
Funny to think that the Buchon has suddenly vaulted into the leading pack as one of the most numerous UK warbirds, behind Spits and Hurricanes of course, but ahead of Mustangs, Sea Furys (Furys) and almost anything else I can think of !
Air Leasing have completed some really outstanding work. One can’t help but wonder what is next !
A show is about 95 % public, interested but not much knowledge, and 5 % enthusiasts who know a lot ( and of course some know everything….perhaps ) . A show organiser will not turn many heads advertising a Hispano 1112, but ‘ Me 109’ strikes a chord, generates interest, and helps get people through the gates. Moreover, they will be perfectly happy with the spectacle.
Yes, the promoters are being a bit ‘flexible’ with the facts, but on balance it does more good than harm, by booking a Buchon and supporting vintage aircraft operation, and these days, with so much information readily at hand, anyone who cares what engine is at the front can readily find out with a moment’s research, avoiding disappointment on the day .
Aww Shucks ! Hope you have that sorted without further snags. The lost revenue will be missed , I imagine.
The few big piston aircraft on the show circuit are really appreciated. Keep on keeping on !
Yes, it is nearly as bad as that awful fake Lancaster , built under licence by Victory Aircraft (Ontario ) , that we had to endure a few years ago, when it flew over from Canada to formate on our real one.
My only look at a flying Sunderland, I think it also flew at Biggin once, and a single flypast at Conningsby, and that is all.
With its Twin Wasps, it sounded like a couple of Dakotas !