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Thanks WHBM, amazing detail in this crowd! The time-table does take a while to work out but, a very good way to show route and time information - when you didn't have so many routes. Although I see the isle of Man is mentioned! I'm going to print it at a large scale to investigate. My Grandfather must have been so delighted that civil aviation had reached that stage just two decades after WWI.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Early on there was mention of Elsan emptying. In the 1980s the airman detailed for Elsan duties was paid 50p per day, taxed, not per Elsan but per day. In order not to saddle one poor soul with the duty and to spread the bountiful largess the duty was spread around.
I once had to do it, liquids only, and I didn't know where there was a sluice. There was a handy drain nearby.
I once had to do it, liquids only, and I didn't know where there was a sluice. There was a handy drain nearby.
This shows Fairey's Great West Aerodrome, presumably not long after the hangar was built as none of the ancillary buildings are present. It doesn't yet have "Fairey" painted on the roof, though it does by the time the photo at the bottom of this page was taken in 1934.
The hangar was at the northmost point of the airfield, whose boundaries can be clearly seen in conjunction with the map in my previous post: Cain's Lane in the foreground (running NW-SE), Heathrow Road in the top right (ran from the Three Magpies to Perry Oaks), High Tree Lane (to West Bedfont) running across the top of the photo and, just visible at the top left, the line of the Duke of Northumberland's River.
So no part of the airfield extended as far as the Great West Road, in fact the Fairey hangar was roughly where Terminal 2 is nowadays, as the crow flies almost exactly a mile and three-quarters distant from the Peggy Bedford (as was).
Hope that helps.
Paxing All Over The World
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All lovely info. Many thanks. Just a couple more of the Tipsy Two.
My father on the left and my uncle on the right. As far as I know, this is 1937.
Finnair were the last to use this diagrammatic approach, even in the 1970s their domestic timetable was done this way.
Unfortunately pre-war aircraft types were not shown. They seem to have been somewhat fluid anyway, but such came about from around 1950. In recent times they have increasingly gone again.
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Couldn't be Langley could it?
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No idea on location. The original albums (and my father) long gone. Even the date is a question mark.
WHBM. I see that, now, the EQU detail has gone from online tables, saves hassle when they change at short notice, or just for a season or during scheduled maintenance. As we know, lots of folks have no idea what they are in anyway and don not care. I don't think anyne prints tables any more.
WHBM. I see that, now, the EQU detail has gone from online tables, saves hassle when they change at short notice, or just for a season or during scheduled maintenance. As we know, lots of folks have no idea what they are in anyway and don not care. I don't think anyne prints tables any more.
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'FCM was also burned at Slough in '52... 
These are indeed Handley Page Hastings of RAF Transport Command.
Most photos I found are however with spinners (propellers caps).
Could these been dismounted to improve motor cooling?
Or are these fitted on the later models?
I see only C1’s without spinners (but also with spinners)
On Wikimedia Commons I find C1’s without spinners in Amman and Christmas Island
Hope it help’s,
Cheers SLB
Most photos I found are however with spinners (propellers caps).
Could these been dismounted to improve motor cooling?
Or are these fitted on the later models?
I see only C1’s without spinners (but also with spinners)
On Wikimedia Commons I find C1’s without spinners in Amman and Christmas Island
Hope it help’s,
Cheers SLB
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All I know is that their father (one of the men in the picture) was a ground engineer in his National Service and went to Egypt. He turned 18 in march 1950. sp this could be late 50 through to early 52. Were there many airbases in Egypt? Aa this was before Suez, I'm guessing Yes.
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In looking up other detail about the Hastings - I found a photo on a page of '3 Para' of one of their Jeeps, strapped to the belly of a Hastings - ready for an air drop! I have not linked as it is Copyright but an easy search. In this picture, please confirm (in particular) the top aircraft. Thanks.
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It's the Shuttleworth Collection's Gloster Gladiator G-AMRK with their Spitfire V and Lysander. The Gladiator is in its Norwegian scheme which indicates the pic was taken sometime after 1997 which was also around the time they acquired the Lizzie from Strathallan.