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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

2nd Mar 2013, 18:36

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Aerovan crash, Manchester, 1957

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Posted By Shaggy Sheep Driver

Interesting follow up to this thread today. I was...

Interesting follow up to this thread today. I was at the Airport Viewing park between a Nimrod tour and Concorde tour when a gentleman I won't identify introduced himself. He'd read this thread, and...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

16th Nov 2012, 09:00

Replies: 40

Aerovan crash, Manchester, 1957

Views: 18,496

Posted By Shaggy Sheep Driver

We used to cycle down past the Romper to the...

We used to cycle down past the Romper to the point where the A538 ran along a former taxyway before turning left past the 06 threshold where the barriers were which stopped road traffic for 06...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

15th Nov 2012, 08:35

Replies: 40

Aerovan crash, Manchester, 1957

Views: 18,496

Posted By Shaggy Sheep Driver

Perhaps the poster is referring to the disused...

Perhaps the poster is referring to the disused concrete disposal pans and taxy tracks that used to be opposite the Romper, on the other side of Sunbank Lane to Fairey's (long since disappeared under...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

13th Nov 2012, 19:45

Replies: 40

Aerovan crash, Manchester, 1957

Views: 18,496

Posted By Shaggy Sheep Driver

It would have been the Aerovan. It had a big...

It would have been the Aerovan. It had a big stubby short fuselage, a thin high tail boom, and a tripple tail. Here's a picture of Sierra Foxtrot, the one in this accident.

Miles M.57 Aerovan IV,...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

12th Nov 2012, 21:08

Replies: 40

Aerovan crash, Manchester, 1957

Views: 18,496

Posted By Shaggy Sheep Driver

Which runway was it? What road did it cross? If...

Which runway was it? What road did it cross? If you were at Faireys perhaps the Wilmslow / Altrincham 'A' road. Or was it the 'B' road to Styal, along the south side, now gone?

I'd always assumed...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

7th Oct 2011, 09:06

Replies: 40

Aerovan crash, Manchester, 1957

Views: 18,496

Posted By Shaggy Sheep Driver

Aerovan crash, Manchester, 1957

Meridian Air Maps operated Miles Aerovan 4 G-AISF on aerial survey work from October 1955 until it crashed on take-off from Manchester (Ringway) on 29 April 1957.

Does anyone have any details of...

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