Thread: Whitley parts

Thanks Richard. The largest fuselage section is owned by the RAFM - it's about 15" long. We have a lot of fuselage parts, but no large sections. We were given a section some years ago but a third party became involved, some misleading statements made and I suddenly found it had gone walkies. Pity. We do have a lot of longeron sections and fuselage frame remnants. There are 3 original fuselage frames which we would hope to be able to...

Hi Elliott, Yes, this is one of my most favourite recoveries that I have taken part in. At the beginning of the investigation the bottom of the lake was scattered with all sorts of wreckage and everything was found by just using your feet. You can also see some of the repairpatches on various sheetmetal items as this aircraft made 19 sorties and on one of them was damaged and had to make a landing at Duxford during July 1940. A real veteran....

Yes I've seen the photos, and heard the reputation of the hotel owners who own the land.... was wondering if any surface bits would have been left over, my grt uncle flew an op in her 5 days/nights previous. There a thread on lanc parts along the lines of this thread so as not to hijack it? many thanks M

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Elliott Did you ever get the turret cupola from Fenland? Laurence

BTW, a Fokker G-1 shot down a Whitley bomber in march 28 of 1940

Nice work Elliott. The turret looks great! Regards,

Thinking out loud when you mentioned about CAD drawings. If you have the part yourself or acsess to it have you thought of using one of these 3d scanners to scan and import the items into cad?

Follow up on the N1521 investigation. Today we spent a windy and very wet day at the lake. Over the years it has become even more shallow than it was and it's now about a meter in depth. The divers we used didn't need any oxygen bottles. The lake had been deepened a few years ago and a survey had been carried out which showed that there are still concentrations of metal scattered around. Today was unfortunatly difficult due to the...

[quote=Whitley_Project;1450865]The engine bearers - a complete set of Whitley engine bearers have now been completed by Peter in Carlisle /QUOTE] Completed bearers prior to shotblasting. One set is from the trawled engine and the other using mostly parts from Whitley N1498. Pete