Would like to get a higher resolution copy of this if anyone can help? It comes from Air Pictorial 12/1956 and consists of (i think!) Wyvern TF.1 VR133, Blackburn YA-5 WB781, Fiesler Storch VX154 and the tail booms of Sea Venom FAW.20 WK379. All on the dump at Farnborough.
By: Wyvernfan - 15th December 2011 at 08:06
The best I could do with the newspaper clip
Thanks for trying LightningMk6.
By: LightningMk6 - 13th December 2011 at 17:28
The best I could do with the newspaper clip
By: Atcham Tower - 13th December 2011 at 16:36
So did I!
By: Steve Bond - 13th December 2011 at 15:46
Lincoln RF533 ended its days with the fire school at Stansted, where I photographed it in about 1967.
By: Arabella-Cox - 13th December 2011 at 12:28
Some of the aircraft were visible from the crowd lines on the far side of the airfield for the next few years – the two Blackburns for example, and the Apollo fuselage was shifted to the ETPS area in 1957 (I’ve posted a pic of the latter on the forum already).
Jim
By: pagen01 - 13th December 2011 at 11:33
I love the Lincoln with the extra cockpit added on the nose, only the second time I’ve seen a picture of it.
I would say the pictures are pretty contempory to the report, especially with one of the Sea Venom NF.20 prototypes booms being present.
Im sure AlertKen has posted pics from the Farnborough dump from this period.
By: Arabella-Cox - 13th December 2011 at 11:28
Full article here:
By: paulmcmillan - 13th December 2011 at 10:56
Air Britian Digest April 1961 lists the folloing at R.S. Coley’s
A.W. Scimitar * 2.
Viking * 2
Hermes * 1
Hurricane * 1 5500M <- Unidentified but later reported to be PG499
Tempest * 1 (JM912)
Skeeter * 1.
Sea Vampire * 3
Storch, VX145. <– sic – Correct Serial VX154
Hunter * 3
ML-120 Drone * 3
Shackleton * 2
Gannet * 3 .
Seahawk * 7
Meteor * 12
Canberra * 5
Sea Fury * 13 ( VW433, VW572, VW700, VW701,
VW708, WE715, WE718, WE72I, WE754, WE788,
WJ220, WJ229, WJ291)
Balloil * 1.
Sea Prince * 1
P-38 Lightning * 1 (AF172)
Lancaster 7 * 2 (NX675, NX676)
Mosquito 35 * 1 (TB115)
Wyvern 4 * 5 (VW870, VW871, VW872, VW873, VW874)
Sea Hornet *1 (VW956)
By: Mark12 - 13th December 2011 at 09:38
I remember this article as a schoolboy. I drooled about access.
I still have the full cutting somewhere. Yes, the Farnborough dump and a half page article by Charles Cain, he of Air-Britain.
A substantial amount of this dump turned up at Coley’s yard c.1958 near LHR and was duly photographed.
Mark
By: paulmcmillan - 13th December 2011 at 08:23
C.Cain would be Charles Cain founding member of Air Britain
By: Wyvernfan - 13th December 2011 at 08:07
Sadly not Jim. All i have is “Air Pictorial 1956-12 / C.Cain – Farnborough Graveyard”.!
By: Arabella-Cox - 12th December 2011 at 22:45
Does it say when the photo was taken by any chance?
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