Idly watching a program about ‘How Do THey Do It?’ and the location was a diamond mine in an extinct volcano in Canada.
And what did I see hiding in the snow in the first scenes? A frozen Bristol Frightener (Freighter to the uninitiated)!
Anybody know what it is doing there? Is it flyable?
Bri 🙂
By: Hornchurch - 28th January 2009 at 23:34
Sorry, hopefully this one will work. Looks like it might not be this one after all if the one on telly was black and orange…
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In the split second it was on T.V. (& caught “off-guard”), it appeared Black/Orange in the overcast weather the camera-crew were filming in……..
Turns out, it’s Dark-Blue & Orange !
The pix are on “Airliners”.net
A/c = ‘CF-TFX’ cn.13137 & it’s mounted on a pole !
By: Newforest - 28th January 2009 at 18:37
No Ant, your photo is CF-TFZ which crashed 30/5/1956.
By: Ant.H - 28th January 2009 at 17:28
Ant’ , your 1st-Link comes up with ‘Forbidden’ (404).
Like Bri’ I was just channel-surfing & was amazed to see it (bearing in mind it was on for less than a second ; but any a/c enthusiast could clearly see it was a Bristol Superfreighter.
IIRC, the ‘Livery’ was Black & Orange ! (yuk)
Can still remember sitting on my back door-step, in Essex, watching the ol’ “Instone” job trundling by in the sky, low-down, only weeks/months before the catastrophic ‘swing’
Sorry, hopefully this one will work. Looks like it might not be this one after all if the one on telly was black and orange…
http://www.avcanada.ca/albums/albums/userpics/10403/bristol_freighter1.jpg
By: mark_pilkington - 28th January 2009 at 04:20
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Last year someone was advising online that they had ownership or salvage rights to this airframe was offering it for donation to any museum wishing to recover it, subject to its remoteness? it would seem an ideal example for recovery and eventual return for static display in the UK as no survivors exist in its country of origin? seems “reasonably intact and straight” other than missing port U/C leg, both engines/cowls/props and nose cargo doors (although in the attached photo it appears both of those are lying in the water on either side of the aircraft?), and some skins removed from the upper surface of the wing centre-section (fuel tank bays?).
An important type, the first british/post-war heavy air transport aircraft in both Military and civil service?
I believe engines and other parts survive from the crash of C-FDFC, in 1996 in the UK (or C-FTPA in Canada or the two at Dwen Airmotive in NZ?) that might help complete this if ever recovered to the UK?
Surely an opprtunity worth investigation? (joint effort between IWM and Duxford Aviation Society??)
http://www.ruudleeuw.com/search116.htm
It was damaged beyond repair after the undercarriage sank through the ice. Upon landing the port landing gear broke through the ice and the aircraft fell on its wing, bending the spars and crushing the sides of the fuselage….
The remains were later hauled onto the shore and stripped for parts. It was then left there on the shore.
quote]In Dec.2007 I received following email:
“The salvage rights for the Beaverlodge Bristol 170 have been secured from Air Canada (AC is the successor firm to Pacific Western Airlines). I am trying to find a museum or preservation group who would be willing to recover and restore the plane.
Unfortunately, several Canadian museums have begged off due to the anticipated high costs.
I also reached out to the people at the Bristol Aero Collection but that may not fly as they were already finalizing arrangements for a Bristol fuselage in Australia.
If you know any museum people..??? [/quote]
regards
Mark Pilkington
By: Newforest - 27th January 2009 at 21:19
Like Bri’ I was just channel-surfing & was amazed to see it (bearing in mind it was on for less than a second ; but any a/c enthusiast could clearly see it was a Bristol Superfreighter.
It is NOT a SUPERfreighter!:p
By: Hornchurch - 27th January 2009 at 19:07
Ant’ , your 1st-Link comes up with ‘Forbidden’ (404).
Like Bri’ I was just channel-surfing & was amazed to see it (bearing in mind it was on for less than a second ; but any a/c enthusiast could clearly see it was a Bristol Superfreighter.
IIRC, the ‘Livery’ was Black & Orange ! (yuk)
Can still remember sitting on my back door-step, in Essex, watching the ol’ “Instone” job trundling by in the sky, low-down, only weeks/months before the catastrophic ‘swing’
By: Ant.H - 27th January 2009 at 11:09
Was it this one?
http://www.ruudleeuw.com/images/search/crash-bristol_freighter-1.jpg
It’s CF-TFZ, abandoned after a landing on the frozen Beaver Lodge lake in 1956. More detail on the following link.
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