Following my visit to this very interesting, and very crowded, museum, I arrived home with in excess of 150 photo’s within my camera !
My first question is … what is this … my eye and my camera were constantly drawn to it !!! Although there were very good info sheets for most exhibits, the arrogant me did not look !!! Keith.
By: GOKONE - 18th October 2013 at 18:57
I’m pretty sure the Victor U/C came from XL190 when it was scrapped at Mawgan, fancied it myself but was beaten to it!
Actually no, I oversaw that the nose leg and 1 main leg were readied for Andre at Hanningfields many years ag0 – the other leg I think was traced to Duxford by Andre who got the brake bits off it! The Flixton leg is from XL160 – the other one is at AeroVenture.
GOKONE
By: J Boyle - 18th February 2009 at 16:04
To quote Wikipedia….
Over his last eleven years Bill Goldfinch had worked for five days a week, with secondhand materials, on his version of a seaplane which had been developed for the US Navy in the 1920s. It was to have had its second taxiing trials the day after he died.”[/I]
As they say, it was clearly inspired by the Loeing amphibians….and their successor, the beloved Grumman Duck. Too bad it was never finished. It would be fun to see whole.
By: Steve T - 18th February 2009 at 03:07
Nashio–
Ta…when one doesn’t visit the UK for twenty years one gets a bit behind on one’s museum inventory info!:rolleyes: Actually when I visited Hendon for the first (and so far only) time, in April 1989, the Valiant and Vulcan were present but the Victor (my favourite of the three BTW) was not represented. I noted later, via FlyPast I think, that they’d added a Victor nose to the Bomber Hall display. Pretty sure I heard about the Valiant moving to Cosford, too, but had forgotten. All three types as whole airframes at Cosford is better than two-and-a-quarter V-bombers at Hendon anyway IMO…Any other museum got major “chunks” of all three types together as at Flixton?
S.
By: Nashio966 - 18th February 2009 at 02:55
hendons valiant is now at cosford, which is the only place on the planet to see all three V bombers (whole aircraft) together 🙂
By: Steve T - 18th February 2009 at 02:40
All three V-bombers together…how cool is that. I wonder how many museums have relics of all three types on view in the same spot like that (Hendon excepted)?
S.
By: keithnewsome - 17th February 2009 at 21:14
V force @ Flixton
Valiant XD857
Pressure bulkhead ?
View of other end ?
Victor XL160
Vulcan XL445
By: keithnewsome - 17th February 2009 at 18:09
Wow ! Thank you all for the info, Mr Goldfinch must have been a remarkable gent ! will read more. Thank you.
Keith.
By: REF - 17th February 2009 at 09:42
It is a Goldfinch Amphibian 161 (s/n 161) – only one was built, never finished or flown.
http://richardflagg.fotopic.net/p55065873.html
By: XM692. - 17th February 2009 at 06:59
To quote Wikipedia….
“After the war Goldfinch settled with his wife Pauline and their daughter at Poole, Dorset, where he was borough engineer. On retiring as acting city engineer of Salisbury in 1974, he devoted himself to his love of flying and making aircraft. He built a Luton Minor in the 1970s, which he flew regularly from Old Sarum Airfield until he was in his late eighties.
Over his last eleven years Bill Goldfinch had worked for five days a week, with secondhand materials, on his version of a seaplane which had been developed for the US Navy in the 1920s. It was to have had its second taxiing trials the day after he died.”
http://davidperrypictures.smugmug.com/gallery/1183626#P-1-12
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By: keithnewsome - 16th February 2009 at 22:48
Rocketeer, Hum … yes it looks like a Mk 1 or Mk 1A
By: Rocketeer - 16th February 2009 at 22:33
A Fugly Mk1???!!!!
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