Congratulations to the RAAF for what seems a rapid and sympathetic response following this discovery.

Forgive my ignorance about such things, I live in a very simple world, but I wonder why that article supposes that the wreckage is to be recovered. Don’t they mean that any remains of the crew will be recovered? How on earth will they recover wreckage, and would that be a ‘worthwhile’ thing. I don’t know what ‘worthwhile’ might mean in this context.

God Bless Australia!

SoG

Willip – I saw his Auster around that time, down at Perranporth – and Maurice or some other wag described it as a Bleriot-Auster.

Not sure if the mod had been documented and endorsed by the CAA.:D

SoG

Congratulations on that grand restoration.

I wonder why it was designed with such long undercarraige legs, giving it that high ground clearance and ‘cocked-up’ angle? That reduced forward visibility on the ground, so what benefit or reason for it?

SoG

That’s a wonderful accomplishment, congratulations to all concerned.

Please tell what it’s like to fly – control response, ground handling, stability, visibility on approach etc?

SoG

old shape is bang on. UK is a country of poor mules – those bred to work and pay tax and those who ride through life on them. And don’t tell me about the disabled and those who need looking after, it’s not them I’m having a go at. It’s the bloody government who can’t get a handle on spending, have crook priorities and go off on military adventures we can’t afford, and have only one answer, tax more.

Oh sorry, grumpy old man these days. Just sodding tired of working more and more, and getting ever worse off.

SoG

Next daft suggestion – a Royal Observer Corps “Post Instrument” – which gave the Observer a grid position, height and direction of an aircraft?

Sorry, can’t let this go away; fascinated.

SoG

Forgive an uneduated guess, but I think I may be sticking my neck out to say what others suspect… this is a clinometer mounting from the gun laying sight of an artillery field piece? Air Ministry’s opinion seems to have more in the way of provenance than mine however, and he thinks not gun.

Best wishes,

SoG

Facing into wind, picketed and chocked, control locks on – stops the control surfaces thrashing in gusts. Not so important on heavy aircraft, but certainly so with light airframes.

SoG