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Very interesting photo, and very rare I would imagine ? could this be G-37-3 (G-AKRD) Ambassador 2 ! used for testing the Rolls Royce Tyne in your photo ? and also used by Bristol testing the Proteus ? 1957 - 1958 ish ?
Thank you evansb !
Keith.
Thank you evansb !
Keith.
From ArthurBorges post #324 -
Correction - Sir Hubert Wilkins was an Australian. He was not himself a licensed pilot and although he was quite competent he always employed an experienced one to fly his aircraft on his many Arctic and Antartic exploratory flights. His prime role was that of navigator and co-commander. He wrote some amazing books. Simon Nasht recently published an outstanding biography, 'The Last Explorer.'
It is an odd thing that the first Catalina of a country that produced Catalinas herself was a second hand Catalina: In 1937, Dr. Richard Archbold purchased Consolidated's first commercial PBY. It was a modified PBY-1 licensed as a model 28-1. Guba, as Archbold called his aircraft, was to be used in support of a planned expedition to New Guinea. These plans were altered when Archbold was asked to aid in a mission of mercy. The Soviet government had asked him to sell Guba to them for $230,000[8]. Archbold agreed and the Soviets used Guba to search for Sigismund Levanevsky and his crew who disappeared during a flight across the North Pole from the Soviet Union to Fairbanks. The Canadian researcher Sir Hubert Wilkins flew Guba to Coppermine in Canada's Northwest Territory on the 23rd of August 1937 and made five search-trips during August and September. In the end of 1937, Guba, now registered L-2, was flown to New York, dismantled, and shipped by steamer to the Soviet Union. From January to March 1938, Wilkins flew four more flights, two of which were during the polar night. Sadly Levanevsky and his crew were never found.
Wilkins wrote a letter to Reuben Fleet, saying he had flown 19,000 miles "... under the most adverse weather conditions, flying over rough and uncharted terrain, and for the most part heavily loaded with fuel, supplies, and equipment. It is my privilege to congratulate you and your associates and all those who had part in the fabrication of this airplane, and in no uncertain terms. Without this magnificent airplane, we could not have attempted our difficult task."[2]
Wilkins wrote a letter to Reuben Fleet, saying he had flown 19,000 miles "... under the most adverse weather conditions, flying over rough and uncharted terrain, and for the most part heavily loaded with fuel, supplies, and equipment. It is my privilege to congratulate you and your associates and all those who had part in the fabrication of this airplane, and in no uncertain terms. Without this magnificent airplane, we could not have attempted our difficult task."[2]
Correction - Sir Hubert Wilkins was an Australian. He was not himself a licensed pilot and although he was quite competent he always employed an experienced one to fly his aircraft on his many Arctic and Antartic exploratory flights. His prime role was that of navigator and co-commander. He wrote some amazing books. Simon Nasht recently published an outstanding biography, 'The Last Explorer.'
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been looking at the photos on this thread and i thought i would add my some of my little collection.
i dont think they will be as good as some of the photos i have seen on this link.
and another one
and one more
hope you like them!
i dont think they will be as good as some of the photos i have seen on this link.
and another one
and one more
hope you like them!
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#346 last pic. evansb
In background is what looks like an ex Disney/Tallmantz B-25J? If so is the airport Orange County and did you take that pic in about 1970?
A few years later [1979/80] I was lucky enough to get quite a few hours in the left seat flying with Frank and Walter Pine who ran Tallmantz after Frank Tallman died.
In background is what looks like an ex Disney/Tallmantz B-25J? If so is the airport Orange County and did you take that pic in about 1970?
A few years later [1979/80] I was lucky enough to get quite a few hours in the left seat flying with Frank and Walter Pine who ran Tallmantz after Frank Tallman died.
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I posted these first two pictures on another thread (mostly about Lancasters) but thought they might be appropriate for here too:
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...ll-1946-a.html
A Fairchild Packet, San Antonio August 1946.
An Avro York, 3rd July 1946. Gravely.
These next two are from my late father's album and the captions are his. I'd be interested to know what the two aircraft are.
Thorney Island. Official opening of RAF station by King George VI, 1937.
22 (Torpedo Bomber) Squadron, Thorney Island, July 1938.
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...ll-1946-a.html
A Fairchild Packet, San Antonio August 1946.
An Avro York, 3rd July 1946. Gravely.
These next two are from my late father's album and the captions are his. I'd be interested to know what the two aircraft are.
Thorney Island. Official opening of RAF station by King George VI, 1937.
22 (Torpedo Bomber) Squadron, Thorney Island, July 1938.
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Spitfire G-ASJV (MH434)
Has anyone got pictures of the above in it's civilian scheme of silver/blue & white after arrival at Elstree for Tim Davies .
Need detail for 1.6th scale radio controlled model ( in clipped wing format) currently under construction.
Need detail for 1.6th scale radio controlled model ( in clipped wing format) currently under construction.
Question without notice.
Ref that lovely photo of the Spitfire posted by Leader 3...Anyone know the significance or otherwise of the very pale green stripe around the fuselage forward of the tailplane?
Noticed it on many occasions but never took much notice or thought about it.
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Ref that lovely photo of the Spitfire posted by Leader 3...Anyone know the significance or otherwise of the very pale green stripe around the fuselage forward of the tailplane?
Noticed it on many occasions but never took much notice or thought about it.
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Spitfire BM597 JH-C is painted in the colours of RAF 317 (Polish) Sqd. The band apprears to me to be the same colour as the spinner, and that of the background colour of the Polish crest aft of the cockpit. Spitfires and Mustangs of 303, 306, 309, and 315 squardons, all Polish, had the band.
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