What have you seen in an unusual place??
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Jensdad, I should think that is indeed the one. Distantly remembered from a Pilot news item quite a few years ago!
Like many here, I've seen many 'off-airfield' aircraft here and there over the years, but tbh I can't remember too many of them in detail. Taking a photo, or sharing the experience with regular friends helps bed the memory in somehow! Many of mine were pre-smartphone days and usually in an unexpected/spontaneous way.
I do recall various aircraft, or sections thereof located in AirCadet or Scout properties around the UK, usually spotted from a train window, or top deck of a bus.
I do recall various aircraft, or sections thereof located in AirCadet or Scout properties around the UK, usually spotted from a train window, or top deck of a bus.
His other ex-TAP Connie I also saw, that ended up in Malta, where it was restored to a bar as well, off airport (how did it get there ?), ending up scrapped on a similar timescale.
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Think the Connie at Faro was torched by local youths or something. Sad... Two Canadian Connies used in Biafra still exist at the airport on Sao Tome - if you look carefully at Googlemaps you can just see them!
Earlier on I spotted my copy of "Shadows" lurking on a bookshelf where I keep other topics - it's coming down for a re-read...
Earlier on I spotted my copy of "Shadows" lurking on a bookshelf where I keep other topics - it's coming down for a re-read...
Many decades ago, I found a large oleo and a piece of aircraft skin in a bog, in the glens of Antrim. Turned out it was from a FW Condor that was shot down by a Sunderland. That must have been one hell of a fight!
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Various of the Connies used in Biafra seem to have transited Faro, closest mainland Europe airport to West Africa. My guess is there were some ex-TAP Connie engineers there, from the Portuguese airline being one of the last to use their fleet in mainstream service. I think they used to come in at night and repaint the reg before dawn.
Another unusual place ? In the Expo 86 showgrounds at Vancouver in 1986, a pioneer Trans-Canada Lockheed 10A Electra from the 1930s. Not only must it have been got there on a barge, it was the centrepiece inside the Air Canada pavilion at the Expo, and in their theatrical show every half hour the props were spun up (be electric motors I think), with P&W radial engine sound effects added.
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When the RAF withdrew Slingsby T38 Grasshopper gliders from use in about 1970, my OC at 2204 (Chesham) Sqdn ATC asked for one (they were stored in a hangar at Halton) and we were given one. It was later 'passed on' to another squadron possibly Watford.
It's long since gone, but there used to be a T6 Trainer on the roof of a rental store about 6 miles south of here on WA Hiway 99. Interestingly it was painted up in a WWII Japanese scheme (which caused many people to think it was a Zero fighter).
Always made me smile when I drove by it
Always made me smile when I drove by it
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Here's one for the sleuths on PPRuNe...
Today on a back road in the new Forest I came across a Motor Cycle Museum. I quick glance as I passed appeared to be a, not a Chipmunk, in Red and White..
Back home it is the in the car park if the Sammy Miller Motor Cycle Museum ( closed Monday 😔 )
Any suggestions please ??
Thanks K
Today on a back road in the new Forest I came across a Motor Cycle Museum. I quick glance as I passed appeared to be a, not a Chipmunk, in Red and White..
Back home it is the in the car park if the Sammy Miller Motor Cycle Museum ( closed Monday 😔 )
Any suggestions please ??
Thanks K
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Looks like a Rallye...
Yup, 1966 Rallye Commodore G-EISO. Looks in quite good nick but if I recall they can suffer from corrosion.
Edit: just looked up at the top of the thread - you have a way of seeking out Rallyes in unlikely settings, Kilty!
Yup, 1966 Rallye Commodore G-EISO. Looks in quite good nick but if I recall they can suffer from corrosion.
Edit: just looked up at the top of the thread - you have a way of seeking out Rallyes in unlikely settings, Kilty!
I used to visit a customer in the Coleshill Industrial Estate. Just up the road was a Jet Provost sitting on the roof of a factory. I was told that the owner was intending to fly it one day.
I recall seeing a Jet Provost in a garden/yard from the starboard window just prior to landing on runway 27 at Bristol - Lulsgate. Must have been 15 years or so ago.