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The Daimler-Benz DB605 engine that Thomas and Tom have been busy bringing back to a state where it can be displayed

The Daimler-Benz DB605 comes from a Heinkel He177A-5 of 4./KG40, shot down between Bolbec and Le Havre, Normandy on 12th June 1944 by a Mosquito from 410 (Canadian) Squadron. 

The Heinkel, commanded by Obfw Werner Neuenfeld, was loaded with Hs293 radio-guided glide bombs and was on its way to strike shipping in the Western Approaches. The DB605 was part of an unusual, linked pair of engines housed in each of two nacelles. 

It was originally recovered in 2012 

  

Thomas and Tom have now turned their attention to another unusual engine – an Allison V-1710

The Allison was recovered from a crashed Lockheed P-38 Lightning – the infamous ‘fork-tailed devil’, as the Germans called it. 

Although widely used in a variety of aircraft during WW2, the Allison today is an unusual find. 

                                                                                       

Rolls Royce Mk III Engine Number 31049 fitted to Gloster Hurricane V6685 that crashed on 18th September 1940