Is this Genuine !!!
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Is this Genuine !!!
A spot of idle browsing one evening ... as you do ... and I came across this photo on the RAF Halton 86th Entry Association's homepage.
RAF Halton 86th Entry Association - (see news tab Nov 2011)
It purports to show a Rhodesian Air Force Canberra flying through a hangar !
It doesn't look "mucked about" ... if genuine ... I'm sure the story would have reached some of our Ex Canberra chaps ? Difficult to judge dates ... but (1) the pilot appears to be wearing only a "cloth electric hat" with no bone dome and (2) the Rhodesian's operated Canberra's around this time ... so it could be 50's as a punt ?
![](http://homepage.ntlworld.com/petert.pandm/RhodesianCanberra.jpg)
Apparently ORAFs stands for Old Rhodesian Air Force Sods.
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RAF Halton 86th Entry Association - (see news tab Nov 2011)
It purports to show a Rhodesian Air Force Canberra flying through a hangar !
![EEK!](https://www.pprune.org/images/smilies/eek.gif)
It doesn't look "mucked about" ... if genuine ... I'm sure the story would have reached some of our Ex Canberra chaps ? Difficult to judge dates ... but (1) the pilot appears to be wearing only a "cloth electric hat" with no bone dome and (2) the Rhodesian's operated Canberra's around this time ... so it could be 50's as a punt ?
![](http://homepage.ntlworld.com/petert.pandm/RhodesianCanberra.jpg)
Apparently ORAFs stands for Old Rhodesian Air Force Sods.
What do fellow PPRuNer's think
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I'd like to think it's genuine!
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I seem to recall that a long time ago this photo featured on another thread but maybe not on this site. I can't remember what the consensus was at the time.
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I seem to recall that a long time ago this photo featured on another thread but maybe not on this site. I can't remember what the consensus was at the time.
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Looking at the stack of pallets, middle right, they are in sharp focus as is the Canberra. Early photoshop methinks.
Shame though it would be a good story esp from the guy on the floor.
Shame though it would be a good story esp from the guy on the floor.
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Herkman ... Just had a look ... exact same picture but this time described as ...
ADF Serials (see photo gallery under EE Canberra)
Humm ... cracking image though![Thumb](https://www.pprune.org/images/smilies/thumbs.gif)
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"RAAF Un-Official' Canberra Mk20 A84-216 'Hangar Fly Through' Amberley C1970"
Humm ... cracking image though
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Fake...
No heat haze, it looks foggy outside (or it really is as flat as a pancake outside!), the front fan blades look stationary, no dust or debris kicked up and the cloth G-helmets were blue in those days so would not look so dark (I suspect that is a groundrcew mate with dark hair).
LJ
No heat haze, it looks foggy outside (or it really is as flat as a pancake outside!), the front fan blades look stationary, no dust or debris kicked up and the cloth G-helmets were blue in those days so would not look so dark (I suspect that is a groundrcew mate with dark hair).
LJ
Pretty sure it is a fake, but as for the comment re the fan blades being stationary, on the Avon the first stage was inlet guide vanes and they did not revolve; merely altered their angle with rpm.
This is the real deal though... on the 21st Aug 1950 Swede Ralston flew his T-6 through one of the ex Airship Hangars at Tillamook OR,halfway through he rolled inverted and flew out inverted...
![](http://i695.photobucket.com/albums/vv316/volvosmoker/HarvardTillamook-1.jpg)
Swede Ralston had his name painted upside down on his AT 6...he was an Airshow performer
Best pic I could find...
Google Image Result for http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7184/7041755299_2c61aed666_z.jpg
Not his a/c but same paint scheme
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Best pic I could find...
Google Image Result for http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7184/7041755299_2c61aed666_z.jpg
Not his a/c but same paint scheme
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"Swede" Ralston
From the notes in the link: Ralston (born 1916) "unfortunately ... suffered from congestive heart failure, and passed away November 14, 2007. Many will miss him."
That must make him a truly old, bold pilot.
That must make him a truly old, bold pilot.
Hopefully Coff will not mind if I introduce another pic which is often presented as a mid air collision... but is quite obviously a ground collision - possibly at Speke !
![](http://i695.photobucket.com/albums/vv316/volvosmoker/3968644495_3e028c6482_b.jpg)
As previously posted...even in the 40's people had a sense of humour with photos
![](http://i695.photobucket.com/albums/vv316/volvosmoker/3968644495_3e028c6482_b.jpg)
As previously posted...even in the 40's people had a sense of humour with photos
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