Fareastdriver,

Looks like a Sea Otter with another one behind it. It was the successor to the Walrus.

I can see two Sea Otters and two Walrus but more interestingly what's that fuselage section on the trailer, a DH Flamingo?

VX276
 

Looks like a York

Don't think it's a York, the fuselage section isn't square enough and the wing/fuselage join isn't in the right position. IMHO. Also are the window openings the correct shape?

I would say Flamingo is closer in section/size.

Looking at the wing profile, is whatever it is upside down?

Anson VH-BFN Albion Park Wollongong NSW. Nov 1950
 

Best thread for some time. Thanks for showing some interesting aircraft and nostalgia rules! :)

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/n...24at105323.jpg

Similar?

Certainly..........!!

AJJ's BCA vol II lists G-AFYF, YJ, YK and YL as scrapped at Redhill in 1950. G-AFYH was scrapped in 1954. What a shame it could not have hung on until the "preservation age". Significant aeroplane as it was the first all metal aircraft built by deH.

G-INFO shows the Mohawk as destroyed in November 1950, so all quite feasible. The Mohawk then went on its 35 year exile in Spain. Great to see the a/c rebuilt but can't help feeling it might be more appropriate in the "Miles Museum" at Woodley rather than Hendon.

Planemike

More Flamingo shots, presumably all G-AFYH
 

24 Jan 1948. Redhill maybe?


Below May 1947

Great shots.........thanks for sharing.

Just a thought/question. Wonder why these five aircraft did not see more use, as Britain was short of transport a/c just after the war?

Planemike

Was it pressurised? I notice the windows are more rounded than the later Comet 1.

Just Binged this.....

"However, the de Havilland Aircraft Company had made perhaps the earliest jet airliner study of a twin de Havilland Goblin engine powered Flamingo in mid 1941. These early designs were drawn round the de Havilland Goblin centrifugal jet engine developing some 1360kg static thrust."

Oh the if's but's and probablies! :)

Fascinating pictures. I rather like the look of the Flamingo. Were they not used by the RAF during the war having been put into service ?

Asymmetric ?
 

The last Flamingo shot from PinkHarrier seems to show the starboard engine's propeller feathered, leading to the (jocular) query that the reason for the aircraft being knee deep in daisies, or at least long grass, was its inability to taxi ...

PS: Well, anybody can speculate about amost anything aeronautical, this being Pprune ... :D:D
Nice shots anyway of an aircraft I've always been surprised that deH's didn't proceed with - "seemed a good idea at the time" ???

Air Rhodesia B720 at Salisbury