howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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just come across this fascinating piece made even more interesting to read that one of the pilots is still alive and remembers flying one.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22380915Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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ahh the flying pencil,caught a bit of the report yesterday.
Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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Achtung Hans Spitfoire!- AAAARRRRGH! Yep they were the 'Boy's Own' days.
Never give up...
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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Interesttnig video.
As a child in the late 70s I remember helping investigate a crater, overgrown with trees, containing what was beilived to be the remains of a German plane which crashed in a field a few hundred yards East of the present A2, about a mile past the Whitfield roundabout in the direction of Canterbury. There are of course many such craters dotted around farmland locally, increasingly filled in and returned to agriculture. Last time I looked out for it (years ago) it was still there.
Assuming it was indeed plane wreckage - and the bits of shrapnel indicated that was so - it could, like the Goodwins Dornier, be a war grave. I wonder if anyone has ever heard stories of a plane crashing on that spot - unlikely I know as it was such a rural location.
One member of the party claimed to have found a kind of plate - maybe the ID details of the plane? I wish I could get access to it and find out, and if it is what we thought it was, contact the German embassy so that a family can perhaps get closure.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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due to be brought up between 9 and 9. 30 pm - news 24 will be doing live coverage.
http://news.sky.com/story/1098476/aircraft-wreck-to-be-raised-from-channelJan Higgins
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They hope to raise it this afternoon around 3.00 or 4.00, I certainly hope all goes well.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i was wondering about that earlier, the wind seems to have died down a lot.
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Earlier attemp failed due to technical error they are hoping to try again before midnight.
Andrew it didnt happen to be behind Singledge Farm did it ?
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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It has been raised and is safely on the barge.
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Amazing film on BBC South East News of the plane being lifted out of the water, looked very delicate.
Audere est facere.
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Audere est facere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Just been told that a Dornier retrieved from a beach near Boulogne last year will shortly be coming over here to be used as spare parts for the one we have.