Anyone shed any info on this aircraft?

[Frank Poncherello]

EDIT: Been waiting a few days for Frank to resize this but no luck, so pic withdrawn until it can be reposted.

Type and location?!?

FP

Expecting answers in seconds!!

[Red Four]

It's a Bristol 170 Freighter. Don't know the location though, possibly Lydd??

[Tempsford]

Could be G-AMWC c/n 13128 dd 5.53 transferred to BUAF 'City of Durham' trooping as XF652

[Rainboe]

Jack Hawkins made an oldie B&W film about being a test pilot on these and some drama happens. Can't remember what it was about, but it passed a boring rainy afternoon- I didn't realise the humour at the time of test flying something that probably flew flat out at 65 knots

[Newforest]

Originally Posted by Rainboe

I didn't realise the humour at the time of test flying something that probably flew flat out at 65 knots

No, it did 75 when the doors were closed

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

Known by some old (sorry, very old) Heathrow controllers as a Bristol Frightener....

[The SSK]

I just happen to have on my desk (as one does) a May 1969 copy of the ABC schedules guide.
The Lydd-Le Touquet peak Summer schedule was 37 daily roundtrips Friday through Monday, a bit less midweek. Plus a couple daily to Ostend and one to Deauville.
I recall the short nose Bristol Freighters (much more aesthetic than the long nose car carriers) flying Newcastle - Isle of Man passenger services for Silver City. They had fantastic short-field performance.

[Groundloop]

Originally Posted by The SSK

I just happen to have on my desk (as one does) a May 1969 copy of the ABC schedules guide.
The Lydd-Le Touquet peak Summer schedule was 37 daily roundtrips Friday through Monday, a bit less midweek. Plus a couple daily to Ostend and one to Deauville.
I recall the short nose Bristol Freighters (much more aesthetic than the long nose car carriers) flying Newcastle - Isle of Man passenger services for Silver City. They had fantastic short-field performance.

The 1953 ABC shows 53 daily round trips between Lympne and Le Touquet. However on peak summer days they probably operated more than that in the 1950's.

[wub]

Here's a link to a pic, with some more info attached
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0873863/L/

[frostbite]

Could it be one of British Air Ferries (Laker) Carvair fleet, out of Southend?

[surely not]

No it couldn't because it is a Bristol 170 as described above

The Carvair was a nosewheel conversion of the DC4 with retractable undercarriage, and that in the photo is clearly a tail dragger with fixed gear.

[click]

Well, it looked like a pretty fancy port-a-john with the WC in plane sight.....ok, I'll go back to JB.

[Tempsford]

If it is a photo of Bistol 170 Mk 32 G-AMWC, it would appear that its last operator was BUAF as 'City of Durham' and was wfu in May 1965.

[The SSK]

I knew a guy who had been a flight attendant on the car ferries. Access to the flight deck was by a skeleton ladder. He used to invite young lady passengers in skirts to pop their head in the flight deck while he stood at the bottom of the ladder...

[Regular Cappuccino]

There was still a Bristol Freighter operating into EMA every night on the Royal Mail contract during the late 1980s (along with a Heron and occasionally a Dak - one wag in a jet commented that it was getting more like 'All our Yesterdays' each time he flew in).
RC

[Talkdownman]

Did a few trips in these with the old Standard Vanguard, Nov 57 Rochford-Ostend-Rochford G-APAU/V operated by SABENA, and April 61 Ferryfield-Ostend-Ferryfield G-AMWE/F operated by Silver City. Not much good on one, especially with a Standard Vanguard or two on board.

[Talkdownman]

Originally Posted by HEATHROW DIRECTOR

Known by some old (sorry, very old) Heathrow controllers as a Bristol Frightener....

I once heard it referred to as a 'Bristol One Freighty'. ISTR one of 'em led the Heathrow 50th anniversary flypast.

[Tempsford]

Tinpis knows a good Bristol Freightener story, I just hope he sees this thread

[stevef]

Originally Posted by Regular Cappuccino

There was still a Bristol Freighter operating into EMA every night on the Royal Mail contract during the late 1980s (along with a Heron and occasionally a Dak - one wag in a jet commented that it was getting more like 'All our Yesterdays' each time he flew in).
RC

Ah, know 'em well. That will have been B170 G-BISU of Instone/Air Atlantique, the Heron would be either G-ANUO or G-AOTI of Topflight (and maybe one of their Dakotas as well) and perhaps Air Atlantique's Daks. The short-lived Air Luton operated them in the same role too. Some hefty Royal Mail penalties if flights were missed; I remember changing both elevators and the rudder of a Dak at Glasgow after a ground incident and it was finished just in time for a very quick handling check followed by the mail flight.

Those days remind me of Jack Ruskin's 'Airline'.

[General Aviation]

It looks like Lydd. Taken from outside of the now demolished end of the terminal building looking towards the new control tower.