Seems to have been a Gypsy Moth that he’d recently restored, not an SE5A. This information from a good friend of his who was the airport manager, I believe. So it’s not just a journalist’s mix-up but reasonably reliable information.

Makes it obvious why there’s somebody shooting AT the B-25 (note cartridge cases in photo 3) if it’s a Japanese photo.

Did the picture “clearly” show it to be in flight? There was a lot that could be done to alter photos long before the day of PhotoShop.

That aside, might Henniker’s reference have had anything to do with the fact that the Hurricane was initially bruited about as “the monoplane Fury,” and that perhaps this was preceded by a retractable-gear Fury proposal?

Wherever it came from it is fascinating.

“Wherever it came from” should be credited. Of course this is the Internet, though, where anybody can steal–some call it “aggregating”–whatever they want.

The replica HMS Bounty has been sunk

I was aboard her not too long ago, when she visited Newburgh, New York (on the Hudson). Handsome ship.

According to the other Buried Spitfires thread on this forum, we’re now up to 120 Spitfires, all in pristine condition.

And the Moon Landing was filmed on a Burbank sound stage.

Anybody else notice Bader at about 9:18?

It’s no different in the art world. Some of the world’s greatest paintings, sculptures and historical artifacts will never again be seen by the public. Hard to say why such collectors value such privacy…particularly hard because few if any of us can speak for them.