Anyone shed any info on this aircraft?
EDIT: Been waiting a few days for Frank to resize this but no luck, so pic withdrawn until it can be reposted.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!! ;) |
It's a Bristol 170 Freighter. Don't know the location though, possibly Lydd??
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Could be G-AMWC c/n 13128 dd 5.53 transferred to BUAF 'City of Durham' trooping as XF652
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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
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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
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Known by some old (sorry, very old) Heathrow controllers as a Bristol Frightener....
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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. |
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. |
Here's a link to a pic, with some more info attached
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0873863/L/ |
Could it be one of British Air Ferries (Laker) Carvair fleet, out of Southend?
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No it couldn't because it is a Bristol 170 as described above :ugh: :ugh:
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. |
Well, it looked like a pretty fancy port-a-john with the WC in plane sight.....ok, I'll go back to JB.:D
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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.
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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...
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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). :)
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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.
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Originally Posted by HEATHROW DIRECTOR
Known by some old (sorry, very old) Heathrow controllers as a Bristol Frightener....
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Tinpis knows a good Bristol Freightener story, I just hope he sees this thread
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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 Those days remind me of Jack Ruskin's 'Airline'. :) |
It looks like Lydd. Taken from outside of the now demolished end of the terminal building looking towards the new control tower.
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Here's how G-BISU ended up, at Enstone
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0209840/L/ |
What a sad picture....:sad:
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Originally Posted by Talkdownman
ISTR one of 'em led the Heathrow 50th anniversary flypast.
Did you talk them through, HD ? |
The one which led the flypast is the one which pranged at Enstone, see my post above
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Originally Posted by WHBM
Did you talk them through, HD ?
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The last (presumably) commercial operation of a Bristol I ever saw was, I am guessing, in about 1988. I was walking south down Regent Street in the centre of London one weekday afternoon and one passed in front in the distance on the normal track like the jets over the South Bank inbound for 27 at Heathrow. Even from afar it looked extraordinarily slow !
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Jack Hawkins made an oldie B&W film about being a test pilot on these |
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