LAP BEFORE LHR APPROX 1956

BOAC Mosquito

Excellent…do you have more early BOAC photos?

WWII Gothenburg Sweden on http://esgb.se/esgb_start.asp?xKat=flygpl39-45

PM for you (top right your Key forum page)

Bit of luck getting G-ANBG, only took 1 roll on the Northside….became G-APLL

The DC-7C has radomes top and bottom….1 story is that it was connected with French nuclear tests, another that it was for rocket/satellite tracking

Interesting – in the meantime for no good reason, but I think you’d like it ;:D

Hi Mick, always thought that the Caravelle should have been fitted with cannons, and the way Alitalia pilots used to handle them, I think they thought they were. NBG – I have kicked myself for a long while for not getting one of her, a beautiful shot of Mcmillan by the tail, do you know what they re registered her as?, that must have been the fastest piece of paper in the ARB at the time! – what’s the white lump on the 7C?

Cheers Brian.

Bit of luck getting G-ANBG, only took 1 roll on the Northside….became G-APLL

The DC-7C has radomes top and bottom….one story is that it was connected with French nuclear tests, another that it was for rocket/satellite tracking

Hi Mick, always thought that the Caravelle should have been fitted with cannons, and the way Alitalia pilots used to handle them, I think they thought they were. NBG – I have kicked myself for a long while for not getting one of her, a beautiful shot of Mcmillan by the tail, do you know what they re registered her as?, that must have been the fastest piece of paper in the ARB at the time! – what’s the white lump on the 7C?

Cheers Brian.

Caravelle freighter, DC-7C AMOR Le Bourget….G-ANBG LHR(LAP)

LBG 1972 …. LHR(LAP) 1956

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Please try to stay on-topic, chaps.

Cloudpainter, these are very nice postcards but this sub-forum is for posting images of civil aircraft taken by forum members. Please bear this in mind in the future.

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GA

Disatrous crasches, which were not immediatly explicable, caused grounding of the UAT COMET I fleet.

In 1954, UAT ordered DC6 and later DC 8 to replace them.

DC 8 UAT AEROMARITIME

ALBUMS

Hi Brian,

You can see some albums on the forum: one click on cloudpainter, view public profil and it works !, I hope…

Best regards

How big was the Imperial Airways photo library? did it come from Brian stainer/….. I found a load of Imperial photos in the US Library of Congress online photo collection and edited them into a FLICKR album….Imperial Airways Palestine will probably get you there…..I enjoyed a swift look at your albums

I’ll PM you sometime in the next few days. No Brian Stainer was not involved.

Brian.

Yes, agreed, I was unsure but took a guess based on the rounded fin!. Re DC5’s the only photos I seem to remember are in Japanese markings, I know there were none in the Imperial Airways photograph library when I owned it!.

Cheers Brian.

How big was the Imperial Airways photo library? did it come from Brian stainer/….. I found a load of Imperial photos in the US Library of Congress online photo collection and edited them into a FLICKR album….Imperial Airways Palestine will probably get you there…..I enjoyed a swift look at your albums

The two Douglas aircrafts are more probably DC 6 rather than DC4 ?

Best regards, Michel

The rare Guest Aerovias is a DC-6 (original length)….the UAT Aeromaritime is a DC-6A or B (stretched fuselage, extra windows in front of wing)

Hi Michel, where can I view your albums?

Brian.

I remember Brian Stainer on an Ariel Arrow….gave up taking my own pics because his were so good!

Funny enough, thats what started me on this forum to find out anything about Brian, who I knew reasonably well. As with you, I stopped bothering with LAP after a while, because Brian was so good and concentrated my efforts on the small airfields. You should still be able to see my thread re Brian on Civil Aircraft images. Also I posted some photos on there under thread FIFTIE’S ISH PHOTOS which may interest you.

Brian.

p.s. I had an Arrow as well!!:D

Thank you very much for comment about painting.

I also paint trains and ocean ships, some pictures could be seen on my albums.

Best regards,

Michel

I remember Brian Stainer on an Ariel Arrow….gave up taking my own pics because his were so good!

Funny enough, thats what started me on this forum to find out anything about Brian, who I knew reasonably well. As with you, I stopped bothering with LAP after a while, because Brian was so good and concentrated my efforts on the small airfields. You should still be able to see my thread on Civil Aircraft images. Also I posted some photos on there under thread FIFTIE’S ISH PHOTOS which may interest you.

Brian.

p.s. I had an Arrow as well!!:D

Yes, agreed, I was unsure but took a guess based on the rounded fin!. Re DC5’s the only photos I seem to remember are in Japanese markings, I know there were none in the Imperial Airways photograph library when I owned it!.

Cheers Brian.

Hi Michel,

That painting is great, by the standard of it I presume you paint professionally, do you only paint aviation scenes (and clouds!).

Brian

The two Douglas aircrafts are more probably DC 6 rather than DC4 ?

Best regards, Michel

Green Dragon – Yes, we all had motorbikes, thrashed all over the place to various airfields, kept getting chucked out by the police because we were not MCA staff – once being locked in the cells for a couple of hours to try and convince us. Sipson Road lot kept threatening to do us all over, but never did. One of the guys had a Vincent Rapide – they now go for over £30K. Happy Daze?

That UAT painting is a cracker!.

Brian.

I remember Brian Stainer on an Ariel Arrow….gave up taking my own pics because his were so good!

One of the DC 6 UAT AEROMARITIME fleet.

Michel ( cloudpainter)

If it was SAS it would be a ‘Cloudmaster’ by cloudpainter :)….do you have a DC-5 painting? Preferably in pre-war British Airways Ltd markings(order cancelled)