Watched her depart today while at work, great stuff ! well done to all involved 🙂
Ah!
Many thanks, I have a feeling that will end up like the A1 lightning in a few years !
A scrapyard and a half that!
Although Mustangs are not my absolute favourite, I am glad it isnt that far away in the grand scheme of things. That brings me on to say, how is Maurice lately?
Add this one to the list..very near to Sawbridgeworth airfield….On the 31 3 1944 Lancaster II, LL683 from 514 Squadron, force landed in field next to airfield when fuel ran low after many diversions. Returning from the infamous Nuremburg raid, this aircraft was the last one to put down. Pilot W/O W.L McGowan. All crew safe.
Well you can discount the Hunsdon Heinkel as the crash site was cleared prior to the airfield being built in 1941, and the Hertingfordbury JU88 (the one that bombed deHavillands at Hatfield) crashed where a gravel pit was sited post war and then the site was a landfill.
The Sawbridgeworth Spitfire was also removed at the time.
I mildly ‘assisted’ with that particular book…feel free to PM me.
Was there not talk of extending the grass runway?
Just got back from watching it myself, I’m not as enthusiastic about it afterwards as I thought I would be. There are some very harrowing scenes indeed…. but I thought the flying scenes…lacked something?
I didnt go just to see aircraft, but to see if a different side was put forward to the original Dunkirk film. it did show a different angle overall, but in many parts I found the story line lacking real depth.
I attended my first Old Warden display recently, I have long since given up on Duxford and its corporate feel (and the Frenchman!) I did like Sywell, but now that has gone OW will be the only show I shall attend in future. A wonderful atmosphere, ans something for the wife with the house and gardens too.
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..and thats me in the blue shirt, camera slung around neck under the C-54 !
While we are speculating on the crop may I add Cereal to the discussion 🙂
A friend has just texted me to say that a Mustang made an emergency landing in a field close to the M11?
We have found evidence at Hunsdon of barbed wire coils strung on four foot long angle iron posts. Huge amounts of wire pickets and barbed wire is to be found all around the airfield and has been bulldozed into heaps that brambles and nettles have colonized.
They also pop up on fleabay now and again, I managed to acquire airfield plans for Matching Green, Sawbridgeworth and Hunsdon, and have recently seen plans for Gt Dunmow and Boreham listed.
With no immediate interest in Blackbushe, I have not searched for it but you ever know !
I also have partaken in the digging of ex RAF dumps, both on non MOD land.
Interested if there are willing diggers wanted, just one question, where would recovered items go?