Was the port under wing serial inverted though?

Looking at the visible serial underneath the port wing I can just about make out K9##1.

Doesn’t really help alot though does it? 😀

I wouldnt say that aquiring the donation of an airframe from the time of the groups formation until now is unstable would you?

The Mossie group have an airframe? :confused:

Does anyone know if the Shackleton is still under the threat of disposal from the IWM?
I just wish a ‘national’ would cherish these beasts and permanantly put one undercover on their premises.

Haven’t Manchester put theirs under cover?

The thing to remember is that much of this stuff would’ve have been regarded as rubbish and nothing more and any burials would’ve been purely convenient disposal.
I suspect anything that ended up buried under concrete was due to it providing extra hardcore material for a foundation rather than an attempt to make it harder to dig up. For instance, I wouldn’t at all be surprised if someone dug up the hard standings of the old wartime blister hangars at Kenley and they found dumped early war material.

L7775’s airframe is fairly complete. Unfortunately its constituent pieces are now in several locations.

Parts are at Moreton-in-Marsh and Brooklands as well as East Kirby and there are a few smaller parts in private collections.

(In case anyone hasn’t got it yet, sticking that Wimpy back together is one of my Bucket List projects… 😉 )

Edit: Oh, ha, I’d forgotten the Stratford move the other month.

Jayce, being a bloody foreigner, not one of the commonwealth people, I’d like to suggest you make a simple exercise:
Imagine this was indeed an RAF album, and it was posted in an American forum under the heading of “WW2 USAAF desert war photos”. Would you try to point it out to the originators that they were in fact RAF not USAAF? And how would you feel if you then got exactly the reply that you just gave? Would you really think that ‘it’s a compliment’?

I see your point, but would consider that Apples and Oranges.

For instance, if they’d said RAF and they were all FAA, then yes, Id’ve pointed that out myself. Just as I’d point out Boot Necks from Pongoes.

All the SAAF, RAAF, RCAF and RNZAF squadrons (and the in-exile sqns) were operating under combined RAF command at the time. In fact the nationalities of the pilots on the squadrons were quite heavily intermingled right from the start of the war. Heck, 71 Squadron was manned by Americans and 75 by New Zealanders, both squadrons were raised directly with those nations in mind, would they not be “RAF squadrons” because of the nationalities involved?

Discendo is right when he says attitudes have changed. One only has to look at the coming Scottish referendum to see the idea of ‘Britishness’ has lost nearly all it’s meaning and value. But while that greater sense of community might seem alien and old fashioned to us, many of our parents, grand-parents and great grand-parents would’ve simply taken it for granted.

It’s important not to loose sight of the zeitgeist when looking at that period of history.