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09 Oct 2017 20:58 - 09 Oct 2017 22:11 #11
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"There's Nothing going on, and you're missing it"
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The half buried section of wing in the mud at Stony Ditch on Orfordness. which may be Stirling iirc. If only I could have used my drone on site.
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09 Oct 2017 21:43 #12
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No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
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I wonder if it should be recovered, if it is from a Stirling. Would it have crashed there or was it a section used for vulnerability testing?
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09 Oct 2017 21:49 #13
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"There's Nothing going on, and you're missing it"
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The Stirling prototype ended up at Orfordness for ballistic testing. It was covered in an issue of Flypast last year.
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08 Oct 2020 09:51 #14
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I saw an item on the BBC news channel about the recovery of a Stirling in The Netherlands. The bloke whos recovering the aircraft is basically hoovering it up, and that includes the bodies inside. Im surprised that our government hasnt spoken to the Dutch government about this.
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09 Oct 2020 09:13 #15
by IanDDavidson
Yorkshire Air Museum claim 6178 bomber versions made.
yorkshireairmuseum.org/exhibits/world-wa...ey-page-halifax-iii/
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Yes there were only that many made, as for the Halifax it wasnt as many as 11000. 7,500 Lancasters, about same number of Mossies. Most built British bomber was the Wellington.
But apparently the Stirling was more manoueverable than the Lancaster.
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