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 Post subject: Bob Diemert's Hurricane
PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:17 pm 
I know what became of it, but where and when did Diemert find it?

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Correct me if I'm wrong but it went to the Uk for Bof B movie was purchased. Came back to the States or possibly Canada and was destroyed in a hanger fire with a Spitfire :?

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Yup - pretty much. Was purchased by Strathallan Collection after B of B movie, TOTALLY rebuilt, then went to CWH in Hamilton, and was destroyed in a hangar fire in the 'nineties. Always wondered where it came from though...


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Correct me if I'm wrong here.............
The a/c was so out of rig that it had a tail
sorta like a kite to stabilize it in flight :shock: :? :roll:

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Never heard about that, and the pics that I saw of it from his era were pretty normal looking, apart from the 1960's era oversize civvy registration letters.


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Have alook here,
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/hurrireg ... f5377.html
Jack I saw her fly many times before the fire she was a beauty, certainly didn't appear to have any problems.
I watched her fly here in Ottawa July 1, 1990 when she flew with Harry Tope's P51 Death Rattler. The P51 crashed, and Tope was killed in the accident.
She burned in the hanger fire in 1993.

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I'm only refering after BD rebuilt her initially.
I recall seeing a photo and you can clearly see
something attached and trailing behind it.
Maybe Gary can ask Connie Edwards??

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Jack,

I remember that trailing tab on one of the control surfaces on the Battle of Britain film set. Was it aileron or elevator..hmm? I will run this by one of the Hurricane pilots for comment.

The aircraft was totally rebuilt and sorted by Sir Willie Roberts' engineers post the film.

'Control Column' magazine here in the UK, in the late 1960's, published a shot of the starting point of the Bob Diemert rebuild and this recent download is I am sure the same shot.

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Anything left after the fire? :(

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A few bits and pieces as far as I know. The CWHM currently has a fiberglass Hurricane replica that bears the same scheme as their former real one. It apparently sits on the real gear legs that survived the fire. Not sure how much if anything else is still around. Any CHW types on here with more information?

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I'm a CWH volunteer, as far as I know the only things that survived, as you said, were landing gear parts. Very sad.


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