Plane Crash: The Hunt for a WW2 Crashed Spitfire

[@JohnDavies-cn3ro]

Thank you for the film compilation. It is worth watching this programme purely for that alone - to me the Spitfire was probably the most beautiful aeroplane ever built. But then, I'm biased - my late grandmother was nursemaid to R J Mitchell as a little child!

[@NorfolkBroadsForum]

When you watch it dancing around in acrobatic fashion, you can really appreciate what an amazing air craft it was. If I was a German and saw 200 of them coming at me...I'd be shitting myself

[@ralphhull6946]

That aircraft was broken up and successfully removed on a Norfolk wherry. I lived in Norfolk for many years and had a small aircraft restoration workshop actually on Ludham Airfield. This aircraft crash was known to me back in the early eighties and I got to know the son of the last wherry master from that era who related the whole story of the recovery. I had reasoned during my own research back in the day that during the 40,s there were no wheeled or even tracked vehicles which could have recovered the aircrsft...but I had completely overlooked the fact that the wherries could navigate the broads easily. If anyone else is interested Candle Dyke is the exact location that the aircraft came to rest.

[@ianlaws3857]

It is nice to see this project is still ongoing , wish you every success

[@davidcossins1094]

Never forget the Hurricane, the pilots who flew those shot down more enemy aircraft than all the other air defences combined.

[@michaelcowcill4936]

The footage looks like a display by the Legendary pilot Alex henshaw 🤔

[@fus149hammer5]

Find a bit of rusty aluminium and a battered makers plate and 5 years later that plane is back in the air. Original aircraft?🤔🤔🤔 I couldn't possibly comment.

[@NorfolkBroadsForum]

Rusty aluminium?

[@fus149hammer5]

@NorfolkBroadsForum Yeah corroded bits of steel and ally like that spitfire they dug out of the beach at Dunkirk can't in reality constitute an original aircraft. At best its the equivalent of a kit car.

[@fraserm803]

A flying spitfire with a merlin without a plate is still a flying spitfire.

[@MrVolvobloke]

You'd be surprised how much can actually be reused in a rebuild.

[@honestjohn1129]

I was just gonna say aluminium don’t rust.

[@freddielaker02]

OMG I lived around there some years ago.... I wish this was discovered back then I would have volunteered to work on it. I worked for 3 seasons on the broads and lived in Stalham and Hickling.

[@NorfolkBroadsForum]

Personally I think it would have been removed bit by bit...let's not forget church railings were removed for the metal. My bet is the aluminium is there

[@freddielaker02]

@@NorfolkBroadsForum I'd still loved to be around but I'm in exile in Blackpool! I moved up here a long time agon but get down to see my daughters a few times a year.

[@rightmess]

Carbureters on Merlins caught out many. Especially on training flights.

[@NorfolkBroadsForum]

They used at least two Rolls Royce engine...the difference I don't know but my grandfather was a Spitfire instructor

[@dabrab]

@@NorfolkBroadsForum the RR Griffon was used in the late versions of Spitfire, but not until long after the aircraft in question which would have been Merlin powered.

[@lynnmorton7544]

What marque of Spitfire is it?

[@ChickenNugget-dk9hp]

5b

[@hughfraser1547]

It is mark 5b