Vengeance Museum Specimens
To: Chugalug, Kookabat and Herkman,
Thanks a lot for your researches into Vengeances perdu.
There was a tale I read some years ago about a complete specimen somewhere in Pakistan. It's not all that improbable. The OTU was in Peshawar, that would be a very likely place for one to be kept if (as I venture to surmise) it is still a military establishment in that highly militarised land. Does anyone have a contact in their High Commission ? - the Air Attache would know.
But why are we overlooking the bleedin' obvious ? This was an American aircraft. How about the Smithsonian ? It was an A-31 (or A-35) of the Army Air Corps after all. And how about Vultee ? Haven't they one tucked away somewhere ? (And my thanks to them for making that wonderful video clip, and to Chugalug who found it, and to the unknown IAF member who filmed it all those years ago.)
We have PPruners in the States. Go to it, chaps !