What would be the point though of telling us about his visit and about the scan and debris, it certainly doesn’t scare me away, we have to follow every lead up, doing so eventually turned up the westland wind tunnel model…
We sometimes get misinformation about drawings, photo’s, parts and crash sites.
Now, whether it’s just because the information that is passed over to us is incorrect from the start or it’s made to be deliberately misleading, we have to follow it up. Why some are telling porky’s I can’t for the life of me fathom out, it’s as if they just delight in being irksome & annoying…
All this takes time to sieve through and to deliberately put a falsehood in the mix is just counter productive in getting the project finished, I can’t get behind the mind set to want do this.
For bloody years people have bleated about getting a Whirlwind made and now it’s happening we find people that know where a certain part, crash site or drawing is are just refusing to pass it on to us – Wasting our time that could be better used elsewhere…
It’s not as if we’re going to take it from them and never give it back, to keep it locked away only to take it out and gloat over from time to time. It’s beyond my comprehension to hoard knowledge, to not pass it on to those who can put it’s use for the benefit of all…
Rant over…
I started the same thread on another site, interesting the way the two have differed…
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/517337-fox-tor-mires-future-salvage-dig.html
Have to say I agree with every word here Mr Bluesky. Sadly that’s the way it goes. What is the point of not passing information on, or collecting these relics and not allowing anyone to see it. Beats me. What if Cosford decided to lock away the Dornier and not allow anyone to see it.
With DARRT. We used to do recce trips to the area. meat the locals make phone calls for intros and put requests for info in the local press. Though with the advent of the Internet most of these freebie publications no longer exist. Its was amazing that even the locals actually witnessing an event came up with their own accounts, some of which turned out to be totally inaccurate, but as we all know the passage of time does tend to distort the true account.
Yes I had some great times with DARRT in its hey day. With research, Plant maintenance, Digs. Preservation, And the diving team. Met some great people and fantastic stories and accounts.
Sadly the whole thing seems to have fizzled out now. But Hay. If no information is available from certain people in the know then its just a case of starting all over again.
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