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Old 15th Sep 2008, 21:32
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reallydeskbound
 
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If you are looking for the name of the scrap merchants in Lincolnshire from where the bits of the aircraft could have originated then look up Windleys Scrap merchants, Tattershall, Lincs. From memory they had cornered the market in Whirlwind bits some time ago, I remember flying from a strip they had there and seeing a large number of Whirlwinds in various states.

The owner had an immaculate Whirlwind - privately owned - which I had the immense pleasure of seeing fly once, seem to remember it was in the old Queen's Flight colours.

Also a large amount of Pan Am wreckage on the site (once - maybe still) from a certain terrorist outrage!
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