Less Common Transport Aircraft

Hanno….also a sad end

Destroyed in a gale at Whitchurch in 1940….full screen scan available by searching Aviation Weather Stations source:life in google images. Hanno was the subject of several photos in Palestine in the Matson collection/Library of Congress online

DH Flamingo

A.E.Hagg did (even prettier) wooden Albatross and metal Flamingo before moving to Airspeed, there doing Ambassador, after a flirtation to resurrect Flamingo/Hertfordshire. B.Gunston, at Flight normally supportive of UK types, has this in Back to the Drawing Board, A’life,96,P88: DH’s “proud belief (in their design) infallibility was to lead (to) repeated troubles with almost every (design after A.E.H’s D.H.91 Albatross, the first) of many to come ‘unglued’”.

The long lost Flamingo site by CT Young is back online, alertken
http://uk.geocities.com/dh95flamingo/index.html
…part dismantled Flamingo at Redhill a sample(attached)

Hagg designed the Napier-Heston ‘racer’, too, I believe….I’ll look out a pic of the Albatross with a broken back

Tupolev early transports

Photos attached of ANT-42 akaTB-7 aka Pe-8 at RAF Pealing 1942, ANT-20 (from flightglobal image of the day blog 2008) and TB-3 (from clashmaker photostream on flickr -not strictly transport but heyho!)….the TB-7 flew Molotov to Scotland and the US in 1942/1943….after a dummy-run for the Scotland trips one Russian pilot from the TB-7 was killed in an RAF Flamingo crash in Yorkshire being flown back from a London visit. (The TB-7 was a bomber but one was converted properly to transport Stalin, I believe)

A.E.Hagg did (even prettier) wooden Albatross and metal Flamingo before moving to Airspeed, there doing Ambassador, after a flirtation to resurrect Flamingo/Hertfordshire. B.Gunston, at Flight normally supportive of UK types, has this in Back to the Drawing Board, A’life,96,P88: DH’s “proud belief (in their design) infallibility was to lead (to) repeated troubles with almost every (design after A.E.H’s D.H.91 Albatross, the first) of many to come ‘unglued’”.

R3D-2 (DC-5) photos from US Library of Congress

Slightly staged exercise shots edited from the 3000pixel+ TIFF downloads you can get from the LoC…..a type ordered then cancelled by British Airways Ltd as WWII broke out, which resulted in BOAC receiving the rather prettier DH Flamingo which unfortunately had a nasty aerodynamic fault which was never cured and caused several fatal crashes…

747 carrying Space Shuttle

Definitely less common in the UK! 🙂 Lucky you to see it!

Does this count, I took this of it taking off from Stansted, 1980’s, I can’t recall the exact date, only the extremely long walk through the traffic jams to see it.

Incidentally, I gather that the CL-44 is still at Bournemouth without it’s engines, well it was last November, anyone know any different.

Nope! Even de russians don’t make them that ugly:D.

Only the French could come up with something like that:diablo:.

It’s an Hurel-Dubois HD-34. About eight of the beasts were build.

Three are still around.

😀 Thanks for enlightening me, Stony 😀

G-ATEL Accountant SBAC 1957

Does this count, I took this of it taking off from Stansted, 1980’s, I can’t recall the exact date, only the extremely long walk through the traffic jams to see it.

Incidentally, I gather that the CL-44 is still at Bournemouth without it’s engines, well it was last November, anyone know any different.

What is that . . ?! Must be Russian?

Nope! Even de russians don’t make them that ugly:D.

Only the French could come up with something like that:diablo:.

It’s an Hurel-Dubois HD-34. About eight of the beasts were build.

Three are still around.

What about this?

What is that . . ?! Must be Russian?

CL-44-O in the Seventies

http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1003596/

http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1006492/

Jack Conroy had been involved with the Aero Spacelines Guppy conversions and later made a Turbo-DC-3 conversion

I can’t remember what it was or what happened to it, was it unique?

It’s the one and only Conroy Skymonster. There was a thread on it a while ago, not updated for 18 months or so.
At the risk of either letting this thread drift, or reviving the original Skymonster thread, do I take it the beast was eventually chopped?
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=46041&highlight=conroy

PBY transport conversion

There were quite a few, but its still ‘less common’ 🙂

link is to a set of Life pics of N5593V in Saudi around the time it got shot up and abandoned…. it was one of the last aircraft out of Croydon in 1959

http://images.google.com/images?q=Kendall+David+Lees&q=source%3Alife

and there’s an earlier PBY set in the Life archive called ‘Flying Yacht’

Hurel Dubois

I was amazed to see one at Fairford a decade ago!

What about this?

JFA/Portsmouth Airport

The two events which interested me about Portsmouth were the demonstration visit of the Yak-40 jet to Jersey Ferry airlines about the time I photographed G-APHY in 1971 and the two runway over-runs in Avro 748s

Do you have any further information or photos of JFA airlines. my late father ran Portsmouth Airport in the 70’s and i am trying to search for any information i can as over the years the photos he had have been lost.

many thanks for any help.

regards

John Slack

I just found a picture I took of this beast at Stansted in 1991, I can’t remember what it was or what happened to it, was it unique?

I’m sorry, but the Belfast was captured parked up behind it and running up his engines, I couldn’t resist showing it, fairly rare type though.

Do you have any further information or photos of JFA airlines. my late father ran Portsmouth Airport in the 70’s and i am trying to search for any information i can as over the years the photos he had have been lost.

many thanks for any help.

regards

John Slack

John, I suspect that you’ll get a better response if you start a new thread (or threads) entitled JF Airlines and/or JFA and/or Jersey Ferry Airlines and/or Portsmouth Airport in the 1970s, so that the subject in which you are interested is displayed on the historic aviation forum front page. That way others on the forum with an interest in or information about the subject will become aware of and can respond to it. If you confine your enquiry to this thread it will only come to the notice of those subscribed to it or those who search against your subject. I hope that this suggestion is helpful.

AA

Do you have any further information or photos of JFA airlines. my late father ran Portsmouth Airport in the 70’s and i am trying to search for any information i can as over the years the photos he had have been lost.

many thanks for any help.

regards

John Slack