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Re: Stirling EF311

Posted by Steve Young on Wed Aug 07, 2002 01:57:21 PM

In reply top Re: Stirling EF311 posted by Cees on Wed Aug 07, 2002 01:43:58 PM

: Eeh, the're French.
:
: That sums it all up?
:
: No, I spoke to Giuseppe Lombardi of the Stirling Project s
: ome time ago and he told me that a team of them visited Fr
: ance to have a look for themselves. It appears that the st
: ructure is fairly hacked about on the inside and that rest
: oring it would need more effort than to start from scratch
: .
:
: They did however photograph it thorougly and took measurem
: ents as well as being a perfect reference how it all fits
: together. So it will have a good influence on the progress
: of the Stirling reconstruction project. What I understand
: is that they hope to start making parts for the bomb bay
: as a basis for the cockpit they are going to build first.
: When they have finished this they will go from there. Reme
: mber the components in store for the RAFM.
:
: Cees

I'm probably stating the obvious here, but there seemed also to be a lot of Stirling parts at a crash site in the Peak District - Paul Millan had this link in his Botha post:

http://www.peakairwrecks.co.uk/content/wrecks.htm

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