Dornier 17 Recovery

[Tomliner]

From the BBC news website today EricT
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22380915

[Garry Russell]

It's up

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22846645

[dodger]

Well just my opinion but i think £600,000 could have been put to good use elsewhere, lets face it there is not much of the plane left,

Roger.

[Paul K]

Well just my opinion but i think £600,000 could have been put to good use elsewhere, lets face it there is not much of the plane left,

Roger.

Looking at the photo, there is a heck of a LOT of the last extant Do-17. Where else would you have had the RAF Museum spend its its £600 K ?

[DarrenL]

There's another (Do-215 variant) found off the Dutch Coast, the Fort bij Veldhuis Air Museum have already recovered the engines and part of the cockpit. The rest is all still down there to be recovered.

[Vancouver]

My personal opinion, what a waste of money, with £600K they could have built an intact replica. Right now they have a pile of scrap metal and still have to spend cash preserving it.
I used to have a Citroen CX in better condition than that, I had to haggle to get £50 scrap.

[airboatr]

All I have to say about it is, its awfully sporting of the Brits doing this.
Ya knocked it down, and here you are picking back up again.
Maybe them Germans should offer some dosh for the courtesy shown.

[Garry Russell]

Might be better keeping it as a crash scene to show a real example of 'taking one out'.

It's hard nowadays to sit in the comfort of home and have little or know empathy with those who, at the time lived in real fear of such things.

It is a lot of money and it would perhaps be spent better elsewhere, but if this funding had not been given or further spending cut, there will be no benefits to the community, it would not be spent elsewhere...nothing in it's place, the money would just get lost.

At least folks can get to experience something out of this.

[DaveB]

I may be mistaken but I seem to remember Hendon already having a 'crash site' display.. could be Cosford but I think it's Hendon.

Last time I went to Hendon.. a lot of it was in darkness so perhaps some of this grant could go to keeping the lights on so Joe Public can see what's on display

ATB
DaveB

[Garry Russell]

When I went to Hendon years ago they had a Halifax crash diorama using the one brought up from a Norwegian lake.

Also A Blackburn Skua I saw somewhere which must have been there or at Yeovilton.

I've never been to Duxford or Cosford

The only other Museums in the UK I've been to was the Cornwall Aero Park at Helston, Torbay Air Museum, Museum of Flight at East Fortune and the Science Museum in London and I don't recall anything crashed as such there.

BTW...they weren't all on the same day