Good For The Gander..

“All this blather from Tighar that it is in “remarkably good shape, very little corrosion” is just that: Blather. It will be rotten. “

Yes, much like the Goodwin Sands Dornier. Most of the ‘Battle damage’ will just be holes from corrosion. As for ‘Nationally significant, pah, – talk about over-egging it. It’s not exactly Alcock and Browns Vimy is it…. Frankly, the costs will be so high, the money would be better spent of decent a/c we already have, or just give it to a cancer charity. :diablo:

There Is A Difference.

I’m firmly with the concensus that the TIGHAR search for Aerhart is a joke, however, there is one big difference between that and the Burma Saga; The whole idea about the former revolves around the question of ‘history’, for, without doubt, little if anything material willl remain, and frankly, I don’t think anything will ever BE found. The latter, Burma Saga is a treasure-hunt, pure and simple, and any involvement of historians and archeologists is entirely incidental to the object, which was/is, to recover usable material.

..and yes, you have set yourself up for an ample supply of brickbats…if they find those Spitfires, you will have to change your name by Deed-Poll. (Suggestions on a post-card…!) :diablo:

BS.

There were a load of BS stories a few years ago about Lanc’s being buried at Castle Bromwich too. Crazy. Think about it, VACBAF was the largest factory of it’s kind in the world…..and what happened to all those hundreds of tons of jigs and fixtures etc…? Scrapped. Why didn’t they bury it all..? Of course, it all went to the scrappy. My fathers pal had a yard full of unused, crated Merlins, they all went to the smelter. There were hundreds, perhaps thousands of tons of unused Spit & Lanc parts left over, so why not scrap that with all the tooling..? WHY bury it..? Totally illogical. Gimmie a break.
That’s not to say that it never happened anywhere, but in the post-war clean-up of a vast industrial complex in a cunurbation crawling with labour and scrap-yards..? Not a hope….:diablo:

Many Pre-War Images.

I have used this a lot. There are many many pre-war images used and many airfields are therefore missing. It’s very interesting, though frustrating, as the res’ is pretty poor compared to the modern stuff….!

American Cars.

Why bother to bury them…? Much easier to build the scrapyard right next to the factory and wheel them straight in….:diablo:

Naa..

The main reason for a flying boast was that it did not need an airfield, building a runway for a beast like that would be a mile long. I do not think there was a runway any where in the world long enough to land or take off the Goose.

Er, no. It may have been in part because it didn’t need an runway, however, plenty of Second World War era runways were a mile long (If that was the take-off run indeed required…), even in Blighty. Today, LHR is about two miles long I think. 🙂

Not Yet.

The Goose was widely known about. That’s just my ‘lower-level understanding’.

As far as burials are concerned, I’d be very hard-pressed to think of much worthwhile ever having been found. Mostly just junk buried because it was – er – just junk.
There have been a few oddities. I think a couple of Daimler-Benz engines were found in a bricked-up cellar in Italy about fifteen years ago, but – buried in crates..? Not as I can recall. It’s a nice thought, but thus far, it seems to be more fantasy than fact.:)

JM.

I don’t know about his ‘dodgy ticker’, but a pal who was there said that JM flew right into a TS. That’s a fact, I don’t think that there was any evidence that Jacks health was to blame. A very sad end to an all-round heroic effort.