Airframes
Benevolens Magister
You didn't know about the Do17 ?!!
There's a thread about it here on the forum, giving details of it's discovery, and it's loss and ditching during the BoB.
The RAF Museum are planning to recover it, the operation was scheduled to commence last may, if tides and weather permitted, which I believe they didn't.
Once it is recovered, it will be enclosed in a saline bath, and transported to the second RAF Museum location at RAF Cosford, where a tent already awaits it. Here it will be gradually changed from saline spray to fresh water spray, before being dried and restored.
It is intended to display the restored aircraft in the entrance lobby at the RAF Museum Cosford and, as far a I know, the plan now is to commence operations this spring, elements permitting.
I'm monitoring the Museums news pages, and I'm also on their mailing list for up-dates, so when I receive further up-dates I'll keep you all informed.
There's a thread about it here on the forum, giving details of it's discovery, and it's loss and ditching during the BoB.
The RAF Museum are planning to recover it, the operation was scheduled to commence last may, if tides and weather permitted, which I believe they didn't.
Once it is recovered, it will be enclosed in a saline bath, and transported to the second RAF Museum location at RAF Cosford, where a tent already awaits it. Here it will be gradually changed from saline spray to fresh water spray, before being dried and restored.
It is intended to display the restored aircraft in the entrance lobby at the RAF Museum Cosford and, as far a I know, the plan now is to commence operations this spring, elements permitting.
I'm monitoring the Museums news pages, and I'm also on their mailing list for up-dates, so when I receive further up-dates I'll keep you all informed.
