Handley Page Hampden in colour

I was wondering if the aircraft was one of the Canadian-built examples doing a check flight prior to being de-engined and shipped off to the UK? No evidence of any kind whatsoever to support this unlikely theory. 🙂

Its always great to see Hampden footage though.:D

Best wishes
Steve P

Hampden In Colour

James:

I don’t think that the terrain surrounding the airfield is quite “mountainess” enough to be B.C.. Having spent a considerable amount of time in Aylmer over the years, I would suspect that the video was taken there. Typical flat southwestern Ontario farmland with trees bordering the field. Outside of those two areas, I can’t recall reading about Hampdens in any other area of the country. I think the Hampdens were used to train airframe mechanics at Aylmer and St Thomas (located about 10 kms west of Aylmer). I also can’t recall any base in B.C. that housed Harvards as shown in the video.

Nice piece of video tho. Shame there was’nt more of that segment.

Al Davis

Hi Al,
DEFINITELY Canada, not UK. May even be BC – Pat Bay(?)
Cheers

Hampden

Gents:

This has the look of being taken in Canada. I know there were Hampdens stored at 14 SFTS at Aylmer Ontario. The lic plate on the veh entering the gates looks decidedly Canadian, the all yellow Harvards and the general look of the airfield boundaries would suggest Canada.

Just a thought for discussion

Al Davis

That guy (audlm) has an interesting collection of videos.

Any ideas where the Lancaster dramatisation came from?

Thanks for the link Cees, very interesting. I’ll be happy enough just to see a static example one day

hampden film

very nostalgic footage of the famous “flying suitcase”, wasnt it unique in being one of the easiest aircraft to build made in sub assembly form them put together in final form very quickly hence the nickname, lovely aircraft.:cool: 😎

Very interesting…thanks for sharing