Did anyone catch this when it happened? 😮
I have been talking with Mr bell again, who run’s the little Geebee shop 😎 , in the old Essendon drome terminal,
And he told me about the Bris 170 that went down in Bass Strait with all lost, I came home and found a pic on line, and saw the ouch shot too 😮 , so I bagged it.
He also witnessed the cutting up of the Ipec Argosy’s 😡 , and took some pic’s, and walked though the carnage, which I can probably get copy’s of., but he said he did feel a bit sad looking at the huge once powerful twin tailed job’s spread everywhere! 😮
Ciao 😉
By: hiflyer - 6th February 2007 at 14:07
Bristol Freighter
Here are a few pics of Wardair of Canada Bristol Freighters taken in 1975 at Yellowknife in the NWT. The aircraft were based there and flew all over the NWT landing on frozen lakes in wintertime.
I have more pictures of the twin Otters so if anyone wants to see them I can post them as well.
By: Newforest - 4th February 2007 at 10:03
eh? Does this help…. note # on bottom of plate frame… 🙂
Having a dumb day today, age? Black Widow? Hope you weren’t hurt in the accident (and your licence is out of date).:)
By: dhfan - 4th February 2007 at 08:14
…registered as G-18-185 (for whom?)…
I guess G-18-xxx was Bristol’s Class B marking, applied for aircraft to be exported and not going on the UK register.
By: ZRX61 - 4th February 2007 at 03:05
That’s rich coming from a poster who is masquerading as a RAF serial!:D
eh? Does this help…. note # on bottom of plate frame… 🙂
By: Newforest - 3rd February 2007 at 21:17
the wangaratta one is now at the moorabin museum
Absolutely correct, report as follows, good news!
VH-ADL “Tasmanian Devil” is a Bristol 170 Freighter, quite a unique aircraft!
In 1955 the aircraft was registered as G-18-185 (for whom?) and soon after it was acquired by the Pakistani Air Force and serialed as S4438. Not long thereafter it was re-registered as AP-AMD.
In 1961 it moved to Australia, having been purchased by Pacific Aviation and registered as VH-ADL; the Captain of the ferry flight was Arthur McLachlan, Managing Director of Pacific Aviation. However, during the 1960s VH-ADL was sold to Air Express; it was involved in an accident (details?) but was repaired. The 1960s also saw a lease to IPEC (period?).
During July/August 1986 VH-ADL moved from Essendon to Deniliquin Museum (?).
On 17Aug1979 VH-ADL was retired. At some point it was placed on display at Drage Airworld, Wangaratta,VIC. (Later “Drage” was dropped from the museum’s name). In 2002 however, Airworld closed down.
On 25Oct02 this Bristol Freighter was sold to Roger Hargreaves in the UK. It had been earmarked for preservation in the UK, but sadly the cost of transportation seems to have spoiled the acquisition and it remained Down Under.
In 2004 it was delivered to the Australian National Aviation Museum at Moorabbin Airport. The 170 survives semi-dismantled, but the way things went it could have been sold for scrap, but fortunately the museum came to the rescue. There are no Bristol 170s in Europe.
Sources:
http://bristolaircraft.blogspot.com/
Clyde North Aeronautical Preservation Group
John McCulloch wrote me in July 2006 with news that the Bristol Freighter had been fully assembled, except for the propellor spinners. He also sent me the link for the masterplan concerning the airport and the surrounding area.
By: oz rb fan - 3rd February 2007 at 19:32
the wangaratta one is now at the moorabin museum
By: Newforest - 3rd February 2007 at 17:49
Stormbird, what happened to the Bristol 170 that was at Wangaratta?
Still there in 2004 as per picture.
By: ozplane - 3rd February 2007 at 14:43
Stormbird, what happened to the Bristol 170 that was at Wangaratta? I was there 3 years ago and it was hoped that it could be brought back to the UK but as ever finance got in the way. By the way I was at school in Blackpool and saw the 170 that crashed at Winter Hill from our form room as it flew to it’s end. A day of low cloud and some drizzle. Very sad.
By: RPSmith - 3rd February 2007 at 12:31
Stormbird – there are at least three Argosies preserved in UK.
Midland Air Museum – 2nd aircraft built and the MAM is just the other side of Coventry Airport where AWA built the Argosies (though they all flew from Bitteswell)
RAFMuseum Cosford – recently moved indoors and the only one under cover
East Midlands Aeropark
J Boyle – the one at Yankee Air Museum is the first built/prototype.
ZRX61 – if the one at Fox Field is close by, up to date photos would be good if you could manage
Roger Smith
By: Newforest - 3rd February 2007 at 08:29
Argosy? There’s one here in SoCal… sat out at Fox Field looking like crap. At least I think thats what it is….. some obscure Brit thing that looks like a wheelbarrow..?
That’s rich coming from a poster who is masquerading as a RAF serial!:D
By: J Boyle - 2nd February 2007 at 23:03
Pity about the Argo’s 😡 , I think only one almost complete job left! 🙁
More good news…the Yankee Air Museum has one outside Detroit.
Sewveral were over here doing LOGAIR contract flights to USAF bases in the 60s. It seems some never left.
By: ZRX61 - 2nd February 2007 at 22:45
Pity about the Argo’s 😡 , I think only one almost complete job left! 🙁
Argosy? There’s one here in SoCal… sat out at Fox Field looking like crap. At least I think thats what it is….. some obscure Brit thing that looks like a wheelbarrow..?
By: FLY.BUY - 2nd February 2007 at 21:50
Just finished reading an excellent book by Steve Morrin called “The Devil Casts his net” about a Silver City Bristol Wayfarer G-AICS which smashed into Winter Hill (Lancashire) in 1958. The book is well researched and written, thought it deserved a plug!
By: STORMBIRD262 - 9th August 2006 at 16:19
A few from the site
Here’s a few more of the Crunched job 😮 .
They are from the Safety link above, for those who have not had a gig yet 😉 .
Whose, probably the safety dude’s, I dunno? :confused:
Gee the dude’s inside the that Bris were pretty luck hey, It crushed like a coke can, but did not burn 😮 .
I pretty sure now that we have 2 complete 170’s left here in Oz 🙂 , the one I saw at Point cooky, and I think that’s old leaky down at Moorabin :p .
Leaky’s been put back together again by now I think, was in bit’s for a while.
Pity about the Argo’s 😡 , I think only one almost complete job left! 🙁
By: Papa Lima - 9th August 2006 at 16:16
Quite right, too, Moggy, credit where it’s due!
By: Moggy C - 9th August 2006 at 14:27
Miserable sod Moggy – a ‘credit’ for using a photo in a forum?
It’s what we insist on here.
Moggy
By: ALBERT ROSS - 9th August 2006 at 14:13
And that looks like a scan from a magazine, my shots were published by FlyPast.
Anybody who has the issue from mid to late 1996 featuring the accident can probably tell if its the same shot.
Not that I’m particularly bothered, but it would be nice to have a credit on the site.
Moggy
Miserable sod Moggy – a ‘credit’ for using a photo in a forum? Mine was published in AIR International – please scan and use it on any forum you wish!As long as it’s not being used commercially, I don’t mind! 😮
By: STORMBIRD262 - 9th August 2006 at 03:14
Brass Monkey’s
Cheeky b@stard’s Moggy 🙂 ,
Can you get a few bob out of em or what mate 😉 .
WHERE WERE THEY TAKING THE BRASS MONKEY’S 😀 :p
P.S. that Safety site’s link is very interesting(in a morbid sort of way I guess :confused: ), Bring’s that old saying to mind,
WHAT GOE’S UP!!! :rolleyes:
I might try and find just how many plane’s ditched, In Bass strait over all the year’s since the first crossing’s from Tassie, Being that I did have a Kiwi Dad, might just see how many fell in the Tasman as well for good measure!.
May even extend it to all plane’s that fell on the way to Oz, or after they left our shore’s 😎 .
Ciao for now,
By: Moggy C - 8th August 2006 at 00:19
This happened on 18th July 1996
That was what I needed.
Found my Sept 96 FlyPast. It is my shot that has been scanned.
Moggy
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