kenley seafire
thanks for that mk22, i saw it earlier in the year at the peter twiss day,but did not realise it was the same one.
glad it survived,but what happened to all those hurricanes (come on someone)
a late user of kenley in the sixties was a french vatour that landed there by mistake thinking it was b/hill.this was during the arc to arc race,and it trundled through the fence (very flimsy )on to the common.it flew out soon after, so that is not in the dump either.
there were also various aircraft panels,and odd control surfaces/parts of aircraft structure made in to camps by the local kids in the woods that were part of the common.some of these had german markings on them, and could have been left over after the (angels one five film),or were film props.
if we had been old enough to drive, and the transit van had been invented no doubt we could have extended our limited store of bits!!
the damaged merlin engine at duxford out of tom gleaves hurricane had been discovered many years before it was recovered,but even four cadets could not carry it out back to kenley where it had taken off from in 1940.