Hi Ian
Thanks for the message and welcome. I'd be interested in hearing
about your friend in Canada. Do you think you might be able to get
an account from him on his Whitley accident?
Regards
Elliott
--- In Whitley_project@..., "Ian" <ian_whitley@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi
> just stumbled on this when I found an old copy of FlyPast Nov 2001
> which had a brief note of the Whitley Project. No web site in
those
> days so was very interested in it and therefore this forum. Just
signed
> the web site guest book and mixed up the note there with this
forum!
> I have an old Frog model kt and partially constructed model. Not
very
> good. Bought a full kit via ebay some years ago from ?Hungary
where I
> think the Frog template/ machines were bought. Not even opened it.
> Would be interested if there are any modellers who could build it
for
> me.
> Commissioned a water colour of a Whitley from the President of the
Air
> Craft Society ( not the right name I know, but he signed it on the
back
> and as its difficult to get down I only can stab a guess.
> BY co-incidence I know a guy who flew in the Whitley's in Canada.
HE
> crashed on a training flight I think and has never flown since.
The
> number he has identified in the book that has the complete
histories of
> the Whitleys
>
> Would be good to see a Whitley reconstructed. Very much an unsung
hero.
> Keep up the good work
>