ME110’s in New Zealand
I am just rewatching the Warbirds Over Wanaka 1994 video for the first time in years. Sir Tim Wallis is being interviewed and he states, I quote:
“Last week three ME110’s arrived. One of them skidded in on a frozen lake after being mortally shot. Sure the engines are damaged, but the whole aeroplane went underneath in the Spring, and fifty years later we’ve brought it out again. And now that’s back here in Christchurch, at Wigram, where in three years we’ll have it rebuilt to flying condition. And just out the back there, I’ve got a mint condition ME110 engine, that was still in a box, ready to go on. So we’ve got the engines, and most important was the airframe, and now we know we’ve got a flyer. We’ll be the first in the world to fly an ME110. That’s something isn’t it?”
Oh how I wish he hadn’t had that crash. I mean his collection is still amazineg and in a world league, but the potential it had up till that day in 1996 was for so much more.
Anyway, my point is, he said he had THREE ME110’s. What’s up with that. Every report I’ve seen he had two. Surely the great man cannot have been mistaken about his own purchases?
I have the TV3 news item from the day the 110’s arrived at Wigram. They are non-commital on how many airframes there were. They realy refer to it as a single aircraft simply because it is going to be restored as one flyer.
So, Did Sir Tim actually have parts from 3 ME110’s rather than the well-known two?
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