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1940 08 Combat over the Channel - Darryl Legg
Dornier D0-17's of 3/KG76 have the attention of Hawker Hurricanes of 501 Sqdn - August 1940.
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A Window on the Past
I recently went to the excellent RAF Museum at Cosford, with the particular aim of seeing one rare ’plane – but not in the conventional sense.
The aircraft in question was sequestered away inside a pair of “conservation tunnels”, being sprayed with a citric acid solution for reasons of preservation. Was my journey down to Shropshire a waste of time, then? No! Admittedly I don’t usually drive 130…
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Dornier 17 Kenley raid- Mark Postlethwaite
2nd photograph credit: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty.
The only remaining Dornier 17 German bomber salvaged from the sea.
A WWII Dornier 17, 5K+AR aircraft, used during the 'Battle of Britain' in 1940, is transported onto a barge near Ramsgate, England.
The salvage operation successfully raised the only remaining German bomber Dornier 17 from the sea.
After completing fund-raising and devising a plan for recovery and conservation, the Royal Air Force Museum announced that the wreck would be recovered in May 2013.
The recovery was originally planned to take around four weeks, using a specially-constructed lifting frame to raise from the sea, but this approach was altered as costs escalated with delays due to bad weather.
The aircraft was eventually raised on the 10 June 2013. It will be taken to the Michael Beetham Restoration Centre at the Royal Air Force Museum's Cosford site, where metallurgists from Imperial College London will have a significant role in the post-recovery conservation of the aircraft.
Current plans are to use Citric acid to remove encrustation and chloride from the aluminium airframe.