Hi
During the war my Mother was evacuated to Dry Drayton, in May 1941 a bomber crashed in a field and slid towards the cottage she was in - I want to find out just how close it came.
I have a photo of the crashed aircraft but it is very grainy, I need to be able to superimpose the above crane in order to work out what is in the photo - a sort of forensic investigation if you will.
I've bought the Airfix kit of the crane and photographed it in roughly the right position but it isn't looking right, the crane body looks too long! Is the airfix kit to scale or is it a different version of the crane or have I got a mismatch somewhere else.
Best explained with the photographs....
(A side question - you can see through the window of the crane in the original photo, presumably into the field beyond - so what is it on top of the cranes cab? It's not part of the aircraft as it's not there in the other shots - was it normal to carry items on the roof of these cranes? I'm assuming that the 'dark' object is something on the roof of the crane)
James