Help to identify these aircraft photos

[Yamagata ken]

No apologies for drifting.

Cornelis A Ligtenstein

That's a name to die for. With that name, I'd have been Ruler of the Universe

[oldshuck]

No you are not dreaming Keith, I must have a thing about the York and Stansted

[MerlinV8]

Everyone will get this one, its a Constalation.....

[bintherdunthat]

Concerning the Connie in the hangar, one can only hope there wasn't three more aircraft in the registration series.

[AvroLincoln]

G-ANUS was never allocated!

[jabberwok]

G-ANUS was never allocated!

But G-ARSE was..

[gibbs]

How do you get a Connie, that way into the hangar ? I appreciate there might be some room towards the right hand side, but it does seem a tad tight

[PaperTiger]

But G-ARSE was

No. Any photographic evidence you may have seen was the result of pranks inflicted on G-ARSF, G-ARSI or G-ARSL. The owners of Dove 'RSI got fed up with this and re-registered it G-ARFZ.

[PaperTiger]

How do you get a Connie, that way into the hangar ?

Take a good long run at it ?

[henry crun]

gibbs: gas path told you how it was done in his #19 post.

[norwich]

Once again straying from the origin of this thread, regarding my pic in post 20, yes there are railway type tracks for the main undercarriage, but none for the nose wheel ? So how did they do that ? Trolley jack ? always remember we are talking 1960's technology here !
Any more pics of Skyways Yorks, Constallations, Hermes etc out there you would like to post ?????

Keith Newsome (Yorkist, should that be Yorkie ? )

[henry crun]

Perhaps the nosewheel turned through 90 degrees, or as you suggest, a small low trolley like those ones car mechanics lay on.

[arem]

Here is one of a Skyways York - I think at Hannover

[arem]

and another - same aircraft

[norwich]

arem, Quality photos, Thank you for sharing those with us, first of many ???? Good to see you have mastered photobucket ! Keith.

[avionic type]

connie in sideways

2 trolleys with small railway type wheels [built for the job ]on the rail track spaced outside of the hangar at the correct width of the main oleos and joined together with an ajustable rod and a smaller trolly with hand steering for the nose leg a/c towed by tractor onto trollies , tractor would connect to inner main trolly and the whole thing pulled sideways into hangar .In hangers 2,3,and 4 at LHR there was room for 2 a/c with their noses in opposite directions pulled in the opposite doors , a tight fit but it worked. I can't remember if we changed engines in the hangers like that most were done with the only the a/c with only the wing and engine 1//2 in the hangar not on the trolleys .this was back in around 1948[Elf and Safety would have had a field day]

[norwich]

Avionic type, Thank you for that information, so pleased your memory is that good !
Another piece of the jigsaw solved !

Keith.

[avionic type]

connie n hangers

Though I was only a 17 year old electrical improver with B.O.A.C at the time I remember it well. Don't ask me what I was doing last Thursday
glad to be of help.

[avionic type]

connie in sideways 1948

A little more info only Connies were put in that way the other a/c of the day ie Yorks, Lancastrians, Haltons, and Dakotas could be pulled in the Hangers tail first and worked on normally and jogging the old brain box only the engines on the Connies near opendoor had any chance of being changed due to the lack of overhead cranes [the roof couldn't support it]and the the old Cyclone was a heavy lump of metal ] and Coles cranes were used .as I said I don't remember any engines changes when they were fully in the hangar.