DH Comet XM829 at Farnborough

The DH 106 Comet, an Air Britain publication by Martin Painter has a history of the aircraft. It also has 3 pictures of the aircraft in its three different registrations; F-BGNY, G-AOJU and XM829 (taken at Stansted in the late 1960’s)

In a list of trials Comets, published in Aviation News September 1993, it simply says XM829 to A@AEE for Decca/Decra trials, retired to the Stansted Fire school 20.02.64. Burnt mid 70.
Sorry no picture, which is something I realise is a common problem with RAE/A@AEE aircraft from that era. I wonder if official photos are held somewhere, would that be Kew, because security seems to have prevented much private photography.

Richard

Would anyone have a photo of Comet 1 XM829 when it was in service at Farnborough in the late ’60s, or have details of it’s markings?
I’ve found shots of it derelict at Stansted but nothing of it operational at the RAE.

Off the top of my head, I don’t think XM829 served at Farnborough – I think it was mainly with the AAEE at Bsocombe, possibly from about 1961 to 1964/5, when it went to Stansted.

There may be a pic in Tim Mason’s book on the AAEE, it certainly had a profile, but it seems to have been rarely photographed.