Beverley Photos
Some from my album.
14th February 1958 - RAF Gan
This 47 Sqn Abingdon-based Beverley "K", serial number XB263, pilot F/Lt Peter Dudley, flew in the advance contingent of Pakistani workers who were to do most of the construction work to convert Gan from a sleepy island with a short crushed-coral landing strip to a busy RAF staging post with an 8,694ft/2,650m long concrete runway.
Personnel clustered around the aircraft add scale to its size.
A close up of the nose of the aircraft shows that it sports the arms of the town of Abingdon (where it was based) and above the arms the ribbon of the GSM annotated underneath “Malaya”.
Finally, the dreaded Beverley "Trim Sheet" which for the first time for an RAF aircraft (I think), need calculations for the vertical C-of-G as well as the usual ones for the horizontal C-of-G.