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Thanks for your reply Ralph. I have since looked at the photos you posted of the model in build progress and the finished piece. Kudos to you , it looks fantastic. My dad immigrated to Canada in 1947and became a test pilot with AVRO Canada. He developed a specialty in engine development and testing and when AVRO spun off its Gas Turbine Division in 1955 b he became Chief Test Pilot for what was then Orenda Engines. After his test pilot career ended he became involved in aircraft sales and marketing and later was with the Ontario Government where he headed up the Ontario Aviation Consortium and marketed Ontario Aerospace goods and services world wide. He died in 2004 but not before being elected to Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame for his outstanding contribution to aviation in 2003. A friend in the UK produced a 67 minute long film in 2020 and much of it centres around my father and the events of September 15/40 and the incident which brough you to make the Hurricane model. He is captured on film from a 1990 interview. It is extremely well done and if you would like to view it Id be happy to send you a link. It is on YouTube. In the meantime all the best. Cheers Chris

Hello Ralph, I'm new to this site. My father was Mike Cooper-Slipper and the aircraft that you describe as the one you are/were building was indeed his Hurricane, L2012, UP-V. In 1986 my father and myself along with a friend, Steve Vizard visited the site where the Hurricane crashed some 46 years to the day after the event. Steve has been on many digs throughout his career and retrieved some bits of wreckage from the site near Marden and I am in proud possession of the engine tachometer housing form that Hurricane. My father took the photo you've referenced sometime before September 15/40 at Croydon and I have the original somewhere in my possession. Please be kind enough to keep me updated on the model you are building which in all likelihood has been completed by now. All the best from Toronto Kind regards Chris Cooper-Slipper