By: Mothminor - 25th April 2013 at 17:55
Would the Bleriot have been with the collection over 25 years ago as this how long I have had the slides
Assuming it is F-AZBA, it has been with Salis a very long time.
By: Thunderbird167 - 24th April 2013 at 22:25
Would the Bleriot have been with the collection over 25 years ago as this how long I have had the slides
By: Mothminor - 24th April 2013 at 19:36
The Bleriot is almost certainly the XI from the Jean Salis Collection. The clothes are wrong for a contemporary picture, the prop is too small and that looks like a Potez 3 cylinder engine. Certainly not a WW1 picture.
Yes, thought it was just my eyesight, but the guy on the right looks like he’s in jog pants and crew neck t-shirt – definitely not pre-WW1!
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 24th April 2013 at 19:09
The Bleriot is almost certainly the XI from the Jean Salis Collection. The clothes are wrong for a contemporary picture, the prop is too small and that looks like a Potez 3 cylinder engine. Certainly not a WW1 picture.
By: Lynx815 - 24th April 2013 at 18:41
You’ve scanned the picture of the BE2s back to front.
By: Mothminor - 24th April 2013 at 18:20
Think the last aircraft is a Bleriot XI possibly.
By: Thunderbird167 - 24th April 2013 at 08:34
I suspect that the Vildebeeste photograph is at Thornaby in the late 1930’s as there is an early Anson in the background that I believe to be 608 squadron as there are a number of other 608 squadron slides in the collection
Having googled I found that 42 squadron were at Thornaby during the Munich Crisis in 1936 with Vildebeeste along with 223 squadron with Ansons
Any idea what the last aircraft type is as this might help trace the location
I know the first one is a Gauntlet
By: Mothminor - 23rd April 2013 at 22:34
Wonderful photos. Particularly the shot of the Vildebeeste. Any idea where it was taken?
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