Lockheed 12 Silver City – Flies again in Aus

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Great pics, John. What is in store for the airplane? Flying off to new owner for rebuild? Or will it be returned to flying status and just cleaned up? I hope it is OK to use one of the photos on my Lockheed Survivors page… I’ll credit the photo.

Which 10 is having its wings rebuild there at the shop?

Blue Skies,
Dan

DH 88 Engines

Thank you for the correction, gentlemen. I was only going on what I had been told, obviously incorrect, but you know what rumors are—truth that needs to be corrected It is a great pity that the Museum had to be sold up.
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Hi

I think one of the DH 88 replicas is the one at the Mosquito Museum in the UK which I believe is being rebuilt.

Regards
JohnP

The DH88’s did actually have Gipsy engines. We have one of them in the UK, and it is quite a thing!

Bruce

If I remember correctly there were some photos of the Anson at a museum called Drage? or something like that in Oz. Still wearing the film colors. From a quick google I see that the TV film I have is originally a 190 min mini series. Having read up a little on the history of the real race, it looks like the producers actually went with the truth as it is known, and not just made up a story. I kinda like that. Not Hollywood style!

T J

Re The Aus Movie

TJ
The movie when shown here was called “Half a world away”. The DH-88’s were reconstructed film set craft with I beleive auto engines (Datsun 180-b) for ground movement along with wire tow on the undercarriage, the air to air shots were large R/C aircraft, all of which were sold off later after the film.
An Anson posed as Boing, a Harvard/AT-6 as a GB racer, Stearman’s as Fairy flycatchers, several Tiger Moths, and a Miles falcon. Most of the aircraft I beleive are/were privatly owned.
I still have a copy of the telly movie —somewhere, on VHS (PAL). 🙂

Just putting up the Lockheed 12 from Murray Griffiths restorations at Wangarratta taken again here by Tony Andrews on his recent trip downunder.

http://community.webshots.com/user/setter125

Then go to lockheed 12 at the bottom of the galleries.

This is a very famous aircraft in Aus and was operated by BHP steel as their corporate aircraft for a number of years. It spent a lot of time in the Airworld museum before being sold and taking to the air again in the past month or so.

Tony Andrews took the photos again on this one – thanks Tony

John P

Nice looking a/c. Not as a nice as a Beech 18, but very close. By the way, I remember seeing an (Australian) movie about the 1934 air race from London to Melbourne several years ago (The great air race…?) and there were several vintage planes flying in it. Which museum did they belong to, or ended up in somewhat later?

T J