Why does no one want the Beverley?
When I did my AQM (ALM) course in the summer of 1959 at 242 OCU Dishforth, among the things we potential AQMs were taught was how to fill in an aircraft weight and balance trim sheet: Hastings (relatively simple), Britannia (relatively simple) because they only included fore and aft trimming, but the dreaded Beverley trim-sheet introduced a new complexity into the skills required to fill in the form as it introduced the need to include vertical loads into the equation as well as fore and aft weights. ISTR the whole AQM course suffered as it took ages to master the bloody thing! Sample below.
Beverley Trim Sheet 1959
Beverley Trim Sheet 1959
The caption to the pic of the Nav at work, above, is quite wrong ... Bev navigators had an easy life, they were never 'lost' - just 'temporarily uncertain of their position' ... then, they just had to follow the oil drip stains from previous Bev flights
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Nice pics guys, thanks. 
If you can get hold of a copy of "No Time on the Ground" by the late Ken FitzRoy, he included a chapter about his time on Beverleys!
If you can get hold of a copy of "No Time on the Ground" by the late Ken FitzRoy, he included a chapter about his time on Beverleys!
sycamore,
your Beverley ULLA story reminds me of my Hercules Ulla drops when I was on JATE. Our max platform weight was 14000lbs but we could drop up to three on a single pass. Does anyone have any Beverley ULLA pics ?
your Beverley ULLA story reminds me of my Hercules Ulla drops when I was on JATE. Our max platform weight was 14000lbs but we could drop up to three on a single pass. Does anyone have any Beverley ULLA pics ?
Thought police antagonist
found when mooching around YT....love the dispatcher, still wearing his beret as the meat bombs depart....and the reference to the, ahem, " gentlemen of the infantry" ....dropping from the boom looks "interesting "
the dreaded Beverley trim-sheet introduced a new complexity into the skills required to fill in the form as it introduced the need to include vertical loads into the equation as well
Thought police antagonist
However, I'm intrigued to learn you actually saw the link because when I posted it, it duly appeared, but, subsequently has vanished.
Last edited by Krystal n chips; 25th Sep 2022 at 08:22.
However, I'm intrigued to learn you actually saw the link because when I posted it, it duly appeared, but, subsequently has vanished.
Odd mix of nostalgia there
Did the para training and the balloon jump at WotG when we did the dispatcher training on Valettas in 54/5 - (actual training drops were done from Hastings). Second ops tour on the Bev, initially at Dishforth and then to 53 at Abingdon. That film training regime was slightly different from ours, in that they were using reserve 'chutes - a reassuring 'luxury' which we had to do without !!!
Did the para training and the balloon jump at WotG when we did the dispatcher training on Valettas in 54/5 - (actual training drops were done from Hastings). Second ops tour on the Bev, initially at Dishforth and then to 53 at Abingdon. That film training regime was slightly different from ours, in that they were using reserve 'chutes - a reassuring 'luxury' which we had to do without !!!
During my AQM course we got airbourne three times in a Beverley to do my powered a/c jump. only to go u/s every time. The PJI took pity on us and we were stood down. Jumped from an Argosy next day.
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Latest condition of XB259 Blackburn Beverley at Fort Paull
