Just for interests sakes, what would be the ballpark figure for the Ju-88?

Lets just say that there happened to be Ten million pounds available to restore a JU88 To flying condition. Do you think that Museums or owners of, would go ahead with the idea? I know the JU88R1 at Hendon is in good condition, wonder if they would be interested. Hmmm hard to say. The JU88 Pic in my sig was taken at St Athan. Now resides at Hendon.

Aviation documentary’s I love em. Cant get enough. Though there are loads available on Youtube now.

I suppose these days its a sign of the times. It does cost the TV Companies a small fortune to make a good documentary. And these days, of interest only to the minority. For obvious reasons they do have to attract viewers to justify production costs.

And unlike the BBC. Commercial TV Can have a 1 hour slot where only 20 minutes of the programme is shown and the rest is adverts which as we know funds the production costs. The odd one here and there has been spoiled by modern day over rated special effects.

You may have done a Google Just found this hope it helps.

http://www.geomatrix.co.uk

Hope its not more buried Spits. Aaaarrrrgggg!

In the early days of all forms of Transport to make bigger better and faster it all came at a very heavy human price. The cost of making travel safer today. Most of aviation pioneering was done here making Britain Great.

The lengths Air crash investigators go to finding out what went wrong is for me mind blowing. Almost as much as solving design problems building a new aircraft.

I still find it mind boggling the size and weight of these Aircraft how they get of the ground. Someone had to work it all out. WOW! There are some very clever people out there. And when you think today there are hundreds if not thousands of aircraft in the sky at anyone time.

Then came automation very impressive enabled the aircraft to fly itself. Though in a few instances at a cost. As a few pilots were to rely to heavily on it, and when it went wrong the need to take over, and manually fly the airplane sadly didn’t occur.

Like they say your more likely to have an accident driving to an airport than flying from it.

Never heard about that one. What happened?

Rob

It is believed that on the landing approach at Colerne the pilot may have throttled back to far through the control gate and went into reverse pitch while still airborne a few hundred yards from the runway. Diving straight into the ground. I understand that none of the crew survived.

Great thread this. I was stationed at Colerne 1970/2. It was C130 Maintenance then. Went for a test flight in one. Fantastic! And a member of the Bannerdown Gliding club. We had 2 winches and 2 jags. I was also a member of the Aircraft museum and the motor club. Loads to do not enough time to do it all in. Brilliant posting. Some really great times there. Sadly never took any photos.

Interesting one this Andy. I would agree the items have been collected and placed there. Seems to be a main wheel as attached. Must have been catastrophic for the wheel to separate from the leg. The person in the middle at the back looks to be carrying wreckage. Looking at the roof tiles would suggest they lifted due to explosion nearby more than something hitting the roof. The windows of the cottage look to be a bit West country ish.

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Recovered a Herc Carb from a clay dig site years ago. Remarkable condition, cleaned it up, still full of fuel. Made it as a display item. Very impressive bit of kit. 4 choke, the butterfly or throttle valves were huge. it had automatic altitude mixture control, using bellows.
I understand this was designed by a woman.