750 Sqdn RN Sea Princes
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Full airframe histories for all Sea Princes were published in "Fleet Air Arm Fixed-Wing Aircraft since 1946", Air-Britain, 2004. I think you'll find some Internet sites have quoted from this since.
You might also like to check out the new book: "On the Wings of a Gull", also from Air-Britain, which has Sea Prince histories, albeit slightly more abridged.
You might also like to check out the new book: "On the Wings of a Gull", also from Air-Britain, which has Sea Prince histories, albeit slightly more abridged.
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Hi,
I was on 750 at Hal Far in 1962
I have one picture of a Prince on the hardstanding at HF, scanned from an old Kodak colour slide. Quality is not great, but yours truly is leaning out of the cockpit. Side number is clearly visible, but not the airframe reg.
If you would like a copy, mail me at [email protected]
Regards
Alan Whitfield
Ex FAA
Ex Bristow
I was on 750 at Hal Far in 1962
I have one picture of a Prince on the hardstanding at HF, scanned from an old Kodak colour slide. Quality is not great, but yours truly is leaning out of the cockpit. Side number is clearly visible, but not the airframe reg.
If you would like a copy, mail me at [email protected]
Regards
Alan Whitfield
Ex FAA
Ex Bristow
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Both Pembroke WV740 and Sea Prince WF321 are with Hunter Flying at St Athan. The Pembroke should be flying soon once its props come back from their 6 yearly service, hopefully in a month or so.
The Sea Prince will have to wait til Gannet XL500 is finished and airbourne though two servicable, (one low hours) Leonides engines are due in from Alabama later this year for WF321.
I am hoping to look at WF137 at Booker to see if this and possibly G-ALWH (now N206UP) could make a flyable short nosed Prince (as Shell, then Sperry and Decca used in the 50s). I have no idea whether the latter is up for sale as it is currently lying in a desert north of Los Angeles.
Does anyone know how difficult it is to replace the spar on these aeroplanes. Is it a complex piece to manufacture?
The Sea Prince will have to wait til Gannet XL500 is finished and airbourne though two servicable, (one low hours) Leonides engines are due in from Alabama later this year for WF321.
I am hoping to look at WF137 at Booker to see if this and possibly G-ALWH (now N206UP) could make a flyable short nosed Prince (as Shell, then Sperry and Decca used in the 50s). I have no idea whether the latter is up for sale as it is currently lying in a desert north of Los Angeles.
Does anyone know how difficult it is to replace the spar on these aeroplanes. Is it a complex piece to manufacture?
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Just chanced on this thread. I flew Sea Princes with 750 at Lossie from August '68 to December '69.
Bob Humphries was CO.
Regret I have no photos but willing to add any info I can.
Mike
Bob Humphries was CO.
Regret I have no photos but willing to add any info I can.
Mike
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My first flight was in a Sea Prince for an air familiarisation trip at HMS Condor, Arbroath in the mid 1960's where I was a baby Artificer Apprentice. It must have lasted all of 15 minutes!
The air station boasted just one Sea Prince and one pilot - who's drove a very beautiful Bristol I recall.
I don't think anything else flew from Condor at that time, though a variety of RN jets made their final flights into the airfield for us apprentices to play with
A few years later in the 1970's at Culdrose as a baby pilot this time, I often had to fight for space in the circuit with 750 Sea Princes
The air station boasted just one Sea Prince and one pilot - who's drove a very beautiful Bristol I recall.
I don't think anything else flew from Condor at that time, though a variety of RN jets made their final flights into the airfield for us apprentices to play with
A few years later in the 1970's at Culdrose as a baby pilot this time, I often had to fight for space in the circuit with 750 Sea Princes
though a variety of RN jets made their final flights into the airfield for us apprentices to play with
Some nice photos of the GIAs, and the aforementioned Sea Prince, here from 1967:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/elaref...7632385109595/
