Hi Dave

Try this link and scroll down to the Simmons spartan shots – lousy quality – taken from my video camera – but you get the idea

http://community.webshots.com/user/setter125

John

Hi Dave – pleased you got a handful of WAAF – are there pictures / was this pre war and are they in color too?

Regards in excited anticipation!!!
john P

dave

Steady there son —– WE are all getting older!!!

Regards
John P

PS

Need to tidy up details of your trip soon

Dave

Give him hell I say – it’s his birthday – what better day to have a go at him!!!!

Regards
john P

Hi Dave

Throughout the 50s-70s and really right up to now, large scale scrapping took place throughout the pacific theatre and was done with either on site smelters or the aircraft were cut into small bits and packed into trucks and barges and removed that way – it was pretty systematic and efficent which is why to this day only a fraction remains. Nadzab was a large base and was ideal for scrappers because so much material was available in such a small area so a lot was scrapped and little remained . Some aircraft did however remain to be recovered and some of the P38 /P39 / P40 and P47s recovered recently came from Nadzab – Have a slow read through the warbirdsresources site (The registry ) and you will see that a lot of the wrecks currently in NZ, Aus and the USA came from Nadzab – Mostly they were remote on the site or buried and thats what saved them from the smelter.

Natives are still scrapping aircraft to earn some money as they have few other ways to earn cash so it is still an issue and sadly wrecks still often turn up at PNG scrap metal yards – It is a survival thing so you can’t blame them .

I think a lot more aircraft will come out of PNG but it will never be an easy place to travel or deal in – fortunately at present a lot of progress is being made.

Regards
John P

Hi all – from Warbirds Registry – it is indeed a p40M

History:
Delivered to RAF as 840.
Vance B. Roberts, Seattle, WA, Sept. 27, 1947-1950.
– Acquired from dispossal at PAtricia Bay AB, Vancouver Island.
– Barged to Boeing Field, Seattle, WA, 1947.
– Registered as N1233N.
Art J. Bell/Bell Air Services, Boeing Field, WA, July 21, 1950.
Oregon State University, 1951-1954.
– Instructional Airframe.
Bob Sturges/Columbia Airmotive, Troutdale, OR, 1954-1966.
– Used as advertising display, Troutdale Airport, 1954-1961.
Columbia Airmotive, Troutdale, OR, Feb. 1967-1979.
– Registered as N1009N(2).
– Stored dismantled, Troutdale.
– Acquired paperwork ID of P40N N1009N (43-23494/RCAF 877, which had been scrapped) from Earl Reinert, Feb. 19, 1967.
Thomas L. Camp, Livermore CA/Las Vegas, NV, 1979-1985.
– Restored Livermore, CA.
– First flight 1982.
The Fighter Collection, Duxford, UK, Feb. 1985-2001.
– Arrived dismantled, Feb. 14, 1985.
– Registered as G-KITT.
– First flight after reassembly, Feb. 27, 1985.
– Flown as FR870/GA-S.

Regards
John P

Oh Thats interesting – in all these years here I have never actually typed in a rude word before and noticed it get automatically neutered – well done the sicko who gets to sit there and type in all the rude word exclusions – bet he’s got a mack and some boiled lollies

Regards
john P