Now I am thoroughly confused as hell. It seems I was right in the first place – the Omaka Hurricane IS ex-Battle of Britain film, and IS ex-Motat.

Its whole history is here on the Omaka Classic Fighters site
http://www.classicfighters.co.nz/aircraft/hurricanebob.htm

So, where on earth did the current Motat Hurricane come from, and why didn’t the museum curator I spoke with, Bill Rayner, know that the Omaka one had been at Motat before. He assured me the one on their plinth now had always been there.

So is the CURRENT Motat plane the Ted Sinclair one? If so, where was it before they got it?

Bill described there one (the current one) as basically a big plastic model, whereas the Omaka one having been built on a proper superstructre like a proper Hurricane’s – which is seen on the site. So the current one is apparently fibreglass shell, whereas the Omaka one is more complex and has a fibreglass skin.

When i went there in 1996 I don’t think there was a Hurricane at all, and my previous trip to that in about 1990 I saw it derelict with a broken wing thanks to vandals. This would have been the one now at Omaka this one pictured below, from the site mentioned above

Not really missed anything Moggy, it was pointless actually.

😉

Sorry Flood, I didn’t mean to upset you. I just thought the colours in your photo look more accurate than in mine. I believe I probably used a flash too, but my photo even after enhancing post-scan is very dull. Cameras have advanced a lot since I was there.

What is BLAT by the way?

Whether or not the real lighting was better when you were there or when I was there, I simply thought the lighting in your photo looked better – it is obviously due to your camera, not the place, but my comment was about the lighting in your photo.. I didn’t mean to cause offence.

I do recall thinking at the time how dim it was there and I have often wondered if it were a preservation reason, ie not to use bright lights so as not to fade the paint. If it is even dimmer now, I;ll have to take your guys word for it. But it was not too good on the 7th of December 1993, I can say that as a fact.

Lancman, when I was there that lady with the projected face was right near the entrance to thje BofB hall. She probably was called Gertie as she was a very cliched cockney character.

And she would have been looking almost straight at the Home Guard dummy. She was nowhere near the Sunderland when I was there. You walked in, saw here and her mates, she told a story, and then you moved on past the HG dude, and there was the BofB planes like Gladiator, Hurricane and Spittfre, and across thev way from thema were the JU88. Stuka, ME109, He111 and CR 42.

That’s how I remember it, though it was a very long time ago now.

I don’t remember Churchill, the one I recall was a war worker woman, with scarf on her head. I think there were one or two others two, but she sticks in my mind.