It was featured in one of the two UK magazines, in response to a listing of all Hurricanes currently surviving. The fact that this particular Hurri wasn’t on the list prompted a full article in the following issue. If I remember correctly, the chap had visited a deceased estate sale of an elderly doctor and come away with a 40’s first aid bag for inclusion in the restoration.

Did you know:

Much of the metalwork used in the construction of the Hindenburg was salvaged from the wreck of the R101?

When Delta Airlines was searching for parts for the beautiful restoration of DC3 ‘Ship 41’, they found a Boeing-stamped DC3 ashtray in the toilets of their own hangar. It was put back in its rightful place where it belonged!

Of course he was!

His name was actually Glenn Muller. Think about it. A famous band leader, the perfect cover for a spy, not to mention all that access he got to all of those allied bases during those tours. The amount of information he must have gathered would have been vast!

Regards;
Steve

Very easy to get information like that out in morse code via a Gene Krupa drum solo. I believe ‘Sing Sing Sing’, loosely translated, actually means ‘Tora Tora Tora’.

After 70+ years of films about the Great War…Wings, Hell’s Angels, Dawn Patrol, The Blue Max, Aces High, Von Richthofen and Brown, The Great Waldo Pepper, Flyboys, Red Baron...plus 40 years of TV comics taking the mickey out of those films…Monty Python, Blackadder, etc…
Let’s face it anything done in the future is going to seem like a chiche.

That’s why I thought Derek Robinson’s ‘Goshawk Squadron’, with it’s bluntly anti-Biggles theme would make a great movie, if nothing else to get away from the knights of the air cliche.

I can imagine Jason Streatham as Woolley: “You treat this aircraft as if it owes you money. You get your hands on it and drive it as though you’re mowing the bleeding lawn. Lawnmower! Gutless bloody lawnmower!” (This quite forcibly put across as Woolley sinks his boot into the pilot’s ribs……..)

Can’t see Algy doing that to Ginger.

It would actually be nice if someone would wake up to the fact that Richtofen was never called ‘The Red Baron’, by the Allies or the Germans.

The Red Battle Flier
The Red Devil
The Jolly Red Baron
The Bloody Red Baron

I must ask: if TIGHAR have never actually recovered an aircraft, then what is it they actually do? Find and document them? Destroy them in abortive attempts to recover them? I’m very interested to find out.