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Forum: Military Aviation
9th Apr 2022, 13:37
Replies: 20,899
Views: 1,354,212
Posted By Wind Sock

The Air Ministry felt that George Murdock's...

The Air Ministry felt that George Murdock's demonstrations of his self-sealing fuel tanks was just a bit too dramatic.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Feb 2020, 09:57
Replies: 39
Views: 15,481
Posted By Wind Sock

Seems the most likely explanation I suppose. ...

Seems the most likely explanation I suppose.
Actually since I asked that question I've just realised that another of those Handley Page aircraft I mentioned in a list ( # post 37 above ) was also...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
22nd Feb 2020, 23:06
Replies: 39
Views: 15,481
Posted By Wind Sock

How did the Heyford get its name? I know...

How did the Heyford get its name?

I know aircraft manufacturers liked 'alliteration' when naming aircraft types. Thus Handley Page had the Hampden, Hyderabad, Halifax, Hastings, Hinaidi etc ( all...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
6th Dec 2018, 17:19
Replies: 2
Views: 1,851
Posted By Wind Sock

Winston Churchill's Liberator

I saw the television documentary 'Churchill's Bodyguard' and I was intrigued by one of the episodes which focused on Chuchill's travels in a Liberator.

It was suggested, I think, that his own...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
6th Dec 2018, 14:26
Replies: 68
Views: 15,916
Posted By Wind Sock

Why I would date the mystery photo as no later...

Why I would date the mystery photo as no later than 1945 concerns what the men are wearing.
Quite are few of them are wearing the RAF forage caps!
I don't think I see any berets ( though I am not...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th Dec 2018, 14:03
Replies: 68
Views: 15,916
Posted By Wind Sock

Wow! This has become quite an educational thread...

Wow! This has become quite an educational thread as well as very interesting one since I first casually posted that mystery photo of a York.

I'm tending to go along with DaveReidUK 's suggestion...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Nov 2018, 13:47
Replies: 68
Views: 15,916
Posted By Wind Sock

OK thanks Quemerford. I'm convinced now. Probably...

OK thanks Quemerford. I'm convinced now. Probably just a standard C mk1.
The chap whose photo it was had received the photo from a distant relative who had worked on Churchill's own 'York' ( that...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Nov 2018, 13:09
Replies: 68
Views: 15,916
Posted By Wind Sock

Oops - Yes I just noticed that it does have a...

Oops - Yes I just noticed that it does have a tail fin in the centre ( so a triple fin ). However - reading up on it I learn that the last two of the four prototypes were indeed built with triple...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Nov 2018, 23:02
Replies: 68
Views: 15,916
Posted By Wind Sock

Avro York prototype - photo

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1072/avro_york_prototype_1165a71a5755920bf998a5419e404dc7ac71116a.jpg
This photo turned up on a local Facebook group. It's the prototype of the...
Forum: African Aviation
2nd Feb 2016, 20:59
Replies: 0
Views: 2,249
Posted By Wind Sock

Daallo Airlines in an incident today

Daallo Airline passenger jet catches fire minutes after take-off in Somalia | Daily Mail Online...
Forum: African Aviation
31st Jan 2016, 10:21
Replies: 10
Views: 5,171
Posted By Wind Sock

Angel You have to admire their optimism. ...

You have to admire their optimism. http://www.pprune.org/images/icons/mpangel.gif
Forum: African Aviation
28th Jan 2016, 15:37
Replies: 10
Views: 5,171
Posted By Wind Sock

African Aircraft Manufacturers

I didn't know there were any aircraft manufacturers, let alone military ones, throughout the whole continent of Africa!


Then I came across this one based in South Africa :


Africa - First...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
29th Aug 2015, 16:02
Replies: 1,087
Views: 1,030,297
Posted By Wind Sock

I don't think it is. They are just harder to...

I don't think it is. They are just harder to research the further you go back in time and when death by accident was more commonplace.


For example there is this incident which is hardly recorded...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Sep 2012, 11:52
Replies: 32
Views: 12,279
Posted By Wind Sock

Brilliant photos from the historic point of view....

Brilliant photos from the historic point of view.

A pity that big puff of cloud in the first photo got in the way of Heston Aerodrome.

It would go to show just how close together the two...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Sep 2012, 08:41
Replies: 32
Views: 12,279
Posted By Wind Sock

I think that runway shows up on an old map from...

I think that runway shows up on an old map from 1948 I found on Wiki.

File:Heathrow 1948.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Heathrow_1948.jpg)

...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
19th Jun 2010, 09:11
Replies: 23
Views: 7,032
Posted By Wind Sock

Another one: "Oh Sir Jasper do not touch me" ...

Another one: "Oh Sir Jasper do not touch me"

I remember all these from Air Training Corps days especially from all those long coach ( or train ) trips to Summer Camp or to a day's Air...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Apr 2010, 08:58
Replies: 10
Views: 3,407
Posted By Wind Sock

You can find (some) of the filming locations on...

You can find (some) of the filming locations on the Internet Movie Data Base site:

Twelve O'Clock High (1949) - Filming locations (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041996/locations)

In the...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Apr 2010, 22:26
Replies: 312
Views: 158,174
Posted By Wind Sock

I was quite shocked to see these statistics. ...

I was quite shocked to see these statistics.

I recall being told that it was the Avro Shackleton that held the dubious reputation for killing off more aircrew during peace time than any other...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
17th Apr 2010, 13:18
Replies: 518
Views: 166,513
Posted By Wind Sock

I remember Dan Air operating out of Carlisle (...

I remember Dan Air operating out of Carlisle ( Crosby on Eden).

I was there for a month in July / August 1970 doing my flying scholarship.
The Dan Air flights were such a low key affair that...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th Apr 2010, 00:42
Replies: 28
Views: 14,252
Posted By Wind Sock

There is a reference in the article below to a...

There is a reference in the article below to a Lancaster bomber flying under Tower Bridge during World War II. The pilot was Lighton Verdon-Roe (son of Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe famous for 'AVRO')
...
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