It must be very daunting, the amount of parts that need to be made or reverse engineered.

Keep up the good work!

I have supported the Blenheim project for many years now, well before she had the last accident. I am really looking forward to seeing her fly again and grace our airshows once more. She has been missed. After all you cant beat a good pair of Bristols!

Haven,t been to Hawkinge Museum for some time, what was the Me109 crash diorama, it looked very interesting?

Makes me think I am long overdue a visit.

I can,t see the Lightning ever being allowed to fly in this country with our CAA rules and regulations as they are today, I am no expert but things seem to be getting worse in this respect.

Not sure about the Bucc, but I suspect similar problems would exist in operating one in the UK?

Hunters obviously no problem.

Surely the memorial is for the men of bomber command who did their duty just as thousands of Germans and other nationalities also did their duty at the time. No one would object to a memorial to the lives lost in Dresden.

A memorial to aircrew who risked all in performing their duties and often paid the ultimate scarifice should not be made into a political debate. I can understand however that it would be a sore point for people who lost loved ones in Dresden, but the memorial is planned to be erected in London not Dresden, and the memorial is in no way specific about the events of Dresden in any case.

Whatever the condition is on recovery it will certainly be an interesting find and well worth the efforts of recovery and conservation. As long as there is a chance to be able to stabilise it then it is worthwhile, it certainly wouldn’t last forever where it is at the moment. I would love to see pictures of it breaking the surface after all these years, and if it is successful how many other similar and possibly rare airframes are there in our waters that could also possibly be raised in the future? Or are most of them long since turned to mush?