15th Apr 2023, 07:15 - Wikipost
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Which Aerodrome Mk IV
Sorry about the delay - didn't get home until late last night.
Bear has it - Boundary Bay , the reliever Airport for Vancouver - an old RCAF base right on the border near Ladner
Bear has it - Boundary Bay , the reliever Airport for Vancouver - an old RCAF base right on the border near Ladner
Begging your indulgence....
Can anyone identify where this is?
It's G-AMXD before she became a Comet 2E, I think (the outboard intake looks standard, not like a bastardised Comet 4) so it's before 1957.
In September-October 1955 she underwent tropical hot and high trials at Entebbe and Khartoum, but who knows where else she might have gone?
Comet 2, G-AMXD.
Can anyone identify where this is?
It's G-AMXD before she became a Comet 2E, I think (the outboard intake looks standard, not like a bastardised Comet 4) so it's before 1957.
In September-October 1955 she underwent tropical hot and high trials at Entebbe and Khartoum, but who knows where else she might have gone?
Comet 2, G-AMXD.
Boundary Bay , the reliever Airport for Vancouver - an old RCAF base right on the border near Ladner
Begging your indulgence....
Can anyone identify where this is?
It's G-AMXD before she became a Comet 2E, I think (the outboard intake looks standard, not like a bastardised Comet 4) so it's before 1957.
In September-October 1955 she underwent tropical hot and high trials at Entebbe and Khartoum, but who knows where else she might have gone?
Comet 2, G-AMXD.
Can anyone identify where this is?
It's G-AMXD before she became a Comet 2E, I think (the outboard intake looks standard, not like a bastardised Comet 4) so it's before 1957.
In September-October 1955 she underwent tropical hot and high trials at Entebbe and Khartoum, but who knows where else she might have gone?
Comet 2, G-AMXD.
I see right side steering =left hand driving so probably (ex?) English overseas.
BFA on the roof behind bowser truck?
Shell oil
Its a "B" I think - so BEA or BFA but the plates on the left hand bowser don't look like anything I can remember
the trucks on the left is a Leyland
the trucks on the left is a Leyland
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I found this image undated on a Shell Australia Facebook site. Possibly the same model bowser as in the Comet image. I'm sure they were pretty much world-wide. I've combed stacks of civil airfields but not found a similar ATC Tower. Perhaps the image is from a military airfield? Seem to be a couple of chaps in uniform? peering into the intakes.
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I've looked at a number of possible destinations where you might have found a Comet & BEA - Luqa, Athens, Tel Aviv etc and various spots in Africa where they might have had the misfortune to have UK trucks but can't see it at all. The second truck on teh right looks vaguely French to me but I can't ID it so far
Quite a smart and distinctive tower but the rest of the place doesn't look like major airport even for those days.
looking at the pictures there is an absence of the "exotic" - plants, people, kit, roofs. Looks like jackets and shirts - so not extremely hot or cold
the shadows suggest the sun is very high in the sky so somewhere south of the UK I guess
Quite a smart and distinctive tower but the rest of the place doesn't look like major airport even for those days.
looking at the pictures there is an absence of the "exotic" - plants, people, kit, roofs. Looks like jackets and shirts - so not extremely hot or cold
the shadows suggest the sun is very high in the sky so somewhere south of the UK I guess
Agreed - it looks quite distinctive but so far not an idea
I looked at Entebbe and Khartoum and it doesn't look like them
But Gne may be on to something - Devon NZ1801 ZK AQV Photo Ed Coates Collection | ADF Serials
shows a Devon at what may be the old Auckland Airport at RNZAF Waitemata and that tower looks very like the one in the OP post
there's another pic at at unmown location in NZ - the tower here looks the same but is a storey higher than the pic above and the OP
But Gne may be on to something - Devon NZ1801 ZK AQV Photo Ed Coates Collection | ADF Serials
shows a Devon at what may be the old Auckland Airport at RNZAF Waitemata and that tower looks very like the one in the OP post
there's another pic at at unmown location in NZ - the tower here looks the same but is a storey higher than the pic above and the OP
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/30119...Bpath%5D=items
National Library of New Zealand has a number of pictures of G-ANLO at the TEAL hangar at Whenuapei 13 December 1955
https://tonymadgehjg.proboards.com/t...ydney-auckland has pictures of Cunningham arriving in a Comet 3 which may one of the sources listed (but not illustrated) in the National Library link
There is a picture of them refuelling - the people look very similar but the trucks (Shell) are different
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/30115...Bpath%5D=items
National Library of New Zealand has a number of pictures of G-ANLO at the TEAL hangar at Whenuapei 13 December 1955
https://tonymadgehjg.proboards.com/t...ydney-auckland has pictures of Cunningham arriving in a Comet 3 which may one of the sources listed (but not illustrated) in the National Library link
There is a picture of them refuelling - the people look very similar but the trucks (Shell) are different
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/30115...Bpath%5D=items
