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Re: Stirling EF311
Posted by Cees on Thu Aug 08, 2002 03:52:52 AM
In reply top Re: Stirling EF311 posted by Steve Young on Wed Aug 07, 2002 01:57:21 PM
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: : No, I spoke to Giuseppe Lombardi of the Stirling Project
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: : ome time ago and he told me that a team of them visited
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: : ance to have a look for themselves. It appears that the
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: : ructure is fairly hacked about on the inside and that re
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: : oring it would need more effort than to start from scrat
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: : They did however photograph it thorougly and took measur
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: : ents as well as being a perfect reference how it all fit
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: : together. So it will have a good influence on the progre
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: : of the Stirling reconstruction project. What I understa
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: : is that they hope to start making parts for the bomb ba
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: : as a basis for the cockpit they are going to build first
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: : When they have finished this they will go from there. Re
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: : mber the components in store for the RAFM.
:Hi Steve,
Yes your'e right, I have seen these photo's various times and still don't understand that such substantial wreckage is still lying there. Recover it and donate it with the RAFM components to the Stirling Project. That way something good will be done with them.
Cees (trying to get people to glue bits and pieces of extinct RAF bombers together)
Rembember the slogan of the 8 USAAF (and WWW)? Keep ?m flying.
Well, let's make it: Get them on their wheels!!!!