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Re: Richard..........
Posted by Mikael Olrog on Fri May 03, 2002 01:18:54 AM
In reply top Re: Richard.......... posted by Richard Woods on Thu May 02, 2002 06:50:39 AM
You can try the forum at www.sff.n.se which is a forum for the swedish aviation historical society. There's probably someone there who can give you information on what happened to the wreck.
/Mikael
: Hi Cees,
:
: The tail unit was the one from Elsie. It was taken to Link
: oping in 1985, but was returned due to lack of interest in
: 1992.
:
: In Tom Bennett's book '617 Squadron' (I found a signed cop
: y for ?2!!) there are two old photo's of Elsie when she wa
: s relatively intact. I will write a nice polite letter to
: the publishers and ask them if it's ok to scan them to put
: in the gallery.
:
: I think ther must have been a bit of an environmental clea
: r up, as the bits that are missing all had fluids, or peri
: shable components, e.g. wheels and tyres, turrets, engines
: , oil systems, fuel systems, retraction systems.
:
: It would be nice to know where it all went.
:
: Richard