RAF Bovingdon - 1960s

[OUAQUKGF Ops]

Blankets For Palestine

Blankets are loaded on to a Halifax of British American Air Services at Bovingdon, bound for Palestine as part of the refugee relief efforts. My thanks to The Editor of Aeroplane Monthly for permission to reproduce this photo.

I've dated this image to the early Summer of 1947. My initial reaction was that these blankets were for Palestinians. However this flight was prior to the creation of The State of Israel and the Israeli-Arab War of 1948. The refugees were Jews from Europe and Asia.



This image gives some idea of the size of the Pannier. Photo-credit Key Aero.



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Avro Tudor 2 of Don Bennett's Fairflight at Aden October or November 1949. The company's two Tudors performed 25 rotations to Israel carrying Yemenite Jews.


Yemenite Jews. Is this a Tudor? Bennett's aeroplanes were operated as freighters but he received ARB approval in early autumn 1949 to allow seating for up to 78 passengers.


Lest We Forget:https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/photos/flight-1948