I came across this original photo of an aircraft which looks very HP Hastings to me, but has two enging pods, which look to contain possibly two jets each. I have a vague recollection of seeing this image before somewhere, but can’t recall what the aircraft is.
Someone out there knows, please help!!
Steve
By: Scouse - 9th January 2008 at 00:01
And here it is…
http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/Visschedijk/2671.htm
must admit I’d never heard of this one….you learn something new every day
By: Arabella-Cox - 8th January 2008 at 23:51
Just to save the blushes of the starter of this thread there was of course a Hastings that flew with Sapphire jets in the outboard positions (TE583)
Thanks! You’re too kind. You could see where I was coming from though! To be honest, if it hasn’t got a prop on the front and a wheel on the back, I’m lost as to how it flies anyway :rolleyes:
Steve
By: Arabella-Cox - 8th January 2008 at 20:36
Just to save the blushes of the starter of this thread there was of course a Hastings that flew with Sapphire jets in the outboard positions (TE583)
By: pagen01 - 6th January 2008 at 10:31
Tuder 8 was a tail sitter, Ashtons were tricycle undercarriage
By: Zebedee - 5th January 2008 at 18:09
I remember seeing WB491 when she was stored at Woodford and wondering what the heck it was…
Found this image recently in a very old book entitled “The Worlds Airways and how they Work” that i found in oxfam…
Judging by the arrangement of the UC leg and the firewalls I suspect its a shot of the Tudor 8 engine installation…
Zeb
By: Mark12 - 5th January 2008 at 17:58
A scruffy shot I took as a schoolboy at Luton c1958, rescued with a touch of PSP.
Anybody know which one this is?
Mark
ps: Only eight side windows on this one. Nine on the Archer shot.
By: keithnewsome - 5th January 2008 at 16:53
For a view of the very aircraft ( I think ? ) in better days try this link :-
By: TwinOtter23 - 5th January 2008 at 16:31
Nice one, Mark was also almost correct, Avro 688 Tudor 8, later became Avro 689 Tudor 9 which was renamed Ashton !
WB491 – ex Cardiff & Woodford; now Newark
By: Arabella-Cox - 5th January 2008 at 15:58
Thanks for the quick response everyone.
Steve
By: Mark12 - 5th January 2008 at 15:50
Vic Flintham, he say:-
….The Tudor VII had Hercules engines and one was built; it started life as nominal TS883 but flew as G-AGRX/VX199 with the Ministry of Supply and Aircaft Production. Finally Tudor 1 TT181 became VX195 as the sole Mark 8 with four Nene jet engines for trials.
Avro Type 706 Ashton
Experience with the Tudor Mk 8 highlighted the problems of a tailwheel configuration for jet-engined aircraft. The Type 706 Ashton was in essence a Tudor development with nosewheel undercarriage. Six were ordered by the MoS in four configurations solely as research vehicles. …..
Mark
By: keithnewsome - 5th January 2008 at 15:46
Nice one, Mark was also almost correct, Avro 688 Tudor 8, later became Avro 689 Tudor 9 which was renamed Ashton !
By: BlueRobin - 5th January 2008 at 15:40
This grasshopper has much to learn, but having Googled the reg, I think you could be right if you look here
By: keithnewsome - 5th January 2008 at 15:36
Blue, How about Avro Tudor 8 ? VX195 . powered by 4 x RR Nene ? Civil side to the rescue ? Keith
By: Mark12 - 5th January 2008 at 15:31
Ashton?
By: BlueRobin - 5th January 2008 at 15:26
Wasn’t there a lot of this sort of thing going on at Hucknall post-WW2?
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