Bit by bit, and little by little.
Hats off to all of you involved in this. If only all existing parts from all of the Stirling pieces held in various museums, could be donated for the project. (oh and all the Halifax bits for you too Cees;) )
Best of luck to you.

my memory is a little vague on the act so perhaps you could fill us in:rolleyes:

And you being an ‘aviation archeaologist’ too… tut tut, you should really be more aware of the regulations:p

Not quite the Thames Estuary but very nearby – I
Just wondered if anyone knew anything more about the possibility of wrecks in that area.

Ah! Dengie marshes, It was a bombing and gunnery range. nearby wrecks included a JU88, albeit a little further out on Buxey Sands. A more ‘modern’ F-100 lost by the USAF and a few others that escape the memory. I seem to remember a story about a C-47 out on the marshes somewhere. Lots of unexploded ordnance was lying about and used to be cleared regulary by the Royal Navy in the early eighty’s.
The EAG recovered wreckage from a Mosquito from just off of the seawall in the Blackwater in 1981 or 82. The Hispano cannons were found lying in the seawall and poking out of the side like a pair of water pipes! These were recovered at the time and used to stand in our museum at Duxford.
I was treated to a tour of the different sights of Dengie marshes once by Mick Rushen, Peters brother. Happy days!

It had a longer paved runway heading to the east, dissected by the building of the M11. Its wartime configuration, and present day layout, is not a lot different sizewise. It was an all grass airfield at one time.

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Did the Swiss actually build aircraft during that period? I was under the impression they purchased aircraft from Germany, untill the later aquisition of Mustangs from the USAAF in post war Germany.
I think the ‘sliding’ factory is another of those myths that rinse and repeat now and again:)

Unless that is where the Chinese Stirling is hiding;)

Sorry chaps, I am currently residing in the sunshine in Grand Canaria (26F!) The flight home is not today but tomorrow at 2 PM. hope you all have a great time.
hope to make it the next time eh?

Thanks for that, it will be interesting to see the end results. Of equal interest is how the old machine performs against ‘new tech’.

Classic – absolutely classic.

I wonder if I should misdescribe all my stuff, and see if I get any more money!

Bruce

I have an old Roman brooch, I could consider selling it on ebay as a ‘genuine RAF veterans toga brooch’, after all, one of the old boys I know, was in at the same time Pontious was a pilot;)