By: G-ORDY - 22nd July 2005 at 06:35
Tony – you are our winner! (Did the filename give it away?) – mind you I like the RATO concept!
G-AMDA was the last wooden-winged Anson to receive a CofA and during 1954-55 it covered most of the south of England doing geophysical survey work towing the magnetometer shown in the photos. (I have no idea what they were looking for or whether they found it!)
It then moved to the London School of Flying at Elstree where it was used for twin-engined training before being presented to Peter Thomas when he founded the Skyfame Museum at Staverton in 1963.
Here are two more shots (all taken at Derby / Burnaston – now Toyota)
Enjoy!
By: turbo_NZ - 22nd July 2005 at 03:17
new RATO unit for STOL variant of the Anson……… 😉
By: Tony Woods - 22nd July 2005 at 03:15
Anson 1 G-AMDA now at Duxford ?
By: bms44 - 21st July 2005 at 20:32
Photo Puzzle
…for cloud-seeding to precipitate rainfall, perhaps? ..not that we needed to do that too often, before this global warming reached us….
By: G-ORDY - 21st July 2005 at 20:19
Let’s make it a bit easier then …..
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 21st July 2005 at 17:29
Fiddlep*ss. You got me on the farmyard one too G-ORDY bugger, arse, etc….
(descends into madness all exeunt…)
By: Arabella-Cox - 21st July 2005 at 17:16
Anson is correct – nicely spotted.
Clue – its still with us.
“Under the tail” is the only angle I’d recognise one from though. 😉
By: JDK - 21st July 2005 at 17:09
MAD work?
looks like a trailing sonoboy thingy. The Canadians and Aussies used something like it for looking for ores over land.
Hmmm.
By: G-ORDY - 21st July 2005 at 17:04
Anson is correct – nicely spotted.
Clue – its still with us.
By: Arabella-Cox - 21st July 2005 at 17:02
Anson. No idea where or when or why though.
By: G-ORDY - 21st July 2005 at 17:00
No, no and no! Good try!
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 21st July 2005 at 16:57
DC3 ? MAD/Sonorbuoy trials – RAE C.1950s?
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