Hello,
Hoping the forum here can help me in a quest for some info on the one and only Martinsyde A.V. 1 . G-ABKH
This plane was derived of the F4 and as far as I can establish the AV1 was basically an F4A. My questions are the following:
-Does anybody perhaps have any furthur pics of this plane? I have info from the Windsock datafile, Martinsyde file of Air Britain and Aeroplane monthly december 1988. Unfortunaly these pics are relatively fuzzy and some clearer and bigger ones would be very helpfull…
– Can anybody perhaps confirm some details on the color scheme? It is mostly listed as being white with two tones of blue, but I am unsure if the registration color on the wing was also blue or perhaps black…
-Has anybody heard of a certain mr. Lionel Hill from Northolt, Middlesex? Three pictures from him have been published in Aeroplane Monthly I mention above, I am hoping the originals are a bit clearer as the ones shown in the article.
-Any other info on the plane would be appreciated…
Thanks in advance!
Kind regards,
Roel Lucassen
By: avion ancien - 26th March 2010 at 14:58
There is also ‘A History of Martinsyde Aircraft’ by J.M.Bruce, which was published in The Aeronautical Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Vol. 72 No. 693 September 1968. I’ve taken a look at the copy which Schneiderman kindly supplied to me a couple of years ago but it contains no images of G-ABKH. However there is a reasonably sharp 1931 image of the A.V.1 in ‘British Civil Aircraft’ by A.J.Jackson, 2nd ed. Vol III p.32. Although, obviously, that is monochrome, using that and extrapolating from what Roel says about the colour scheme, I would suggest the following;
– white upper fuselage and top surfaces of mainplanes and tailplanes
– lighter blue cheat line
– darker blue lower fuselage
– white (or pale colour) registration mark on lower rear fuselage
Jackson describes it as “resplendent in two vivid shades of blue”. The fin and rudder are painted with a rather 1960ish wavy ‘raspberry ripple’ design, which looks to be the aforementioned white, darker blue and lighter blue in three repeated anti-clockwise sequences. On the lower fuselage, beneath the front cockpit is a stylised circular motif in the same colour as the registration mark. Jackson says that the stylised letters within the circle are CAV, the initials of its owner, C. Amherst Villiers.
By: wieesso - 26th March 2010 at 02:57
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http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=83677
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March 25, 2010 at 10:37 pm