By: Tin Triangle - 4th April 2014 at 11:02
My late grandfather used to reminisce about seeing Belgian-registered Stirlings in use for transporting pigs to the Continent shortly after the war. I wonder if this was at Blackbushe? As far as I can remember his main memory was the unholy smell!
By: 12jaguar - 3rd April 2014 at 20:20
As Hindenburg states, our investigations have revealed no evidence that anything was buried there. As for the RAFM Stirling parts, at present they’re not integral to our plans (too far aft for our purposes), useful though for general design information
John
By: ian_ - 3rd April 2014 at 20:03
Cheers Hindenburg, Excellent photo!
By: hindenburg - 3rd April 2014 at 19:29
Yes..looks like a 500 Hunter Ian….
By: ian_ - 3rd April 2014 at 19:23
Is that an Ariel Red Hunter twixt his thighs too? I lightly crashed one once at a B24 crash site. A precursor of worse to come.
By: hindenburg - 3rd April 2014 at 19:09
Great photo…only the other day I was speaking to a chap who was converting bomber aircraft to carry troops back from Egypt at the end of the war.they were mean’t to fly to ‘London’ but were diverted to Blackbushe….he thinks they were Lancasters…I have my theories…and on the Egyptian buried Stirlings too….scrapped.
By: 1batfastard - 3rd April 2014 at 19:09
Hi All,
Doesn’t the RAF reserve collection hold a quantity of Sterling airframe parts and why are they keeping them when the Stirling project could actually do something with them ?
Geoff.
By: jeepman - 3rd April 2014 at 15:53
It is of course one of the sister aircraft to the airframe that was the start of the Chinese Stirling survivor legend back then in the days of the Warbirds Worldwide Forum as it had crashed on take off at Kunming in China.
Any truth in the assertion that the Egyptian Stirlings were buried in the desert after they came out of service?
This is not intended to ignite a Burma type free-for-all – but is simply a genuine question – so can we keep it that way pleeeeeeease!
If they’re still there then it is probably one of the best chances of seeing a complete Stirling
By: D1566 - 3rd April 2014 at 14:56
Great photo!
From www.ab-ix.co.uk/oo-stirling.pdf
c/n SH1536
PK181 DD 45 No RAF service recorded
DD 45 No.273 MU Polebrook, Northants
BT25. 8.47 DD28. 8.47 Airtech Ltd, Thame. (PHOTO)
Test flown 28.8.47 at Polebrook
OO-XAE DD29. 8.47 RD 3.11.47 (CofR No 738) Air Transport Co SA, Melsbroek
(Sold by “Transair” to the above)
Flown 21.4.48 to Shanghai, arriving 9.5.48 returned to Brussels with 29 passengers. On 27.7.48 left Blackbushe for Castel Benito and Cairo (Farouk Field, arriving 28.7.48 on 29.7.48 noted training Egyptian crews.
Canx 2.10.48 as sold to Tangiers Trading Cy
(for delivery to Egypt AF)
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