Pics to make you weep

Just a few more to keep you going.
Glyn

1 F-86D Sabre 52-3638
…….

Any idea of time & place ?
Behind is A-26 44-35923 ,possibly still around in Kentucky
& to the left a B-25 ? with an odd nose ?

…………..and no I have not counted them.

Glyn

I am sad enough to though, its 15 Hornets & could be exactly 50 years ago as the last flight of any Hornet was in May 1955.

Thanks for posting

[QUOTE=GlynRamsden]If you want a good cry look at these pictures. All but the Lincoln were at Seletar 67-69.

Glyn

1 Lincoln B2 WD132 at Hullavington

Glynn
I must have missed this when you first posted it. Very interesting to see WD132 – her remains eventually ended up in the B.K.L. Alloys yard in Kings Norton Birmingham by June 1968. I used to frequent that yard which later saw the arrival of vast amounts of Valiant remains.

As mentioned by 2 previous posters, the markings are definitely 33 Sqn which was amalgamated with 45 Sqn around March 1955, the unit then being known as 45/33 Sqn. This unit was retitled 45 Sqn on 15 October 1955.

The photo was almost certainly taken in the bone yard at Seletar sometime after 45/33 was re-equipped with Vampire FB 9s in May 1955. Although no 45 Sqn codes (OB-?) are visible, it is likely that the silver coloured aeroplanes are ex-45.

BR

Laurie

The squadron markings look more like 33 Sqn and 1955 I suspect is a more likely date. If they are 33s it is probably Butterworth. 80 Sqn had canberras by Aug 1955. However all suggestions are welcome.

Glyn

Air Britains The Hornet Files says they went to Seletar. The markings are 33Sqn but it was amalgamated with 45Sqn…

Flood

The squadron markings look more like 33 Sqn and 1955 I suspect is a more likely date. If they are 33s it is probably Butterworth. 80 Sqn had canberras by Aug 1955. However all suggestions are welcome.

Glyn

Looks like 33Sqn, at Seletar after May 1955, to me; although it could just as well be 33/45Sqn since they were amalgamated. PX335 ‘A’ to the right, PX365 ‘P’ to the left. Confused by the one apparently marked ‘324’ behind ‘A’, though…

Flood

Only one this time, which I have just scanned in and no I have not counted them.

Does anybody know where and when this was taken?

Glyn

Look like 80 Squadron RAF Hornets in 1957 possibly taken in Hong Kong?

Only one this time, which I have just scanned in and no I have not counted them.

Does anybody know where and when this was taken?

Glyn

I was looking for any info re aircraft I remember fro my time at Seletar (Aug 1967 to March 1970). When I saw the picture of several Belvederes in that line, my jaw dropped. I went with my Dad to see them. I have not pictures of them like that before.
Likewise the picture of the Beverleys awaiting breaking brought back memories.
I could look at material like this all day and all of the night. I would love a picture of the Javelins nineship, April 1968. (Anyone have the serials?) Also pictures of Andovers of 52 Sqn.

Ian

Welcome to the forum, Ian.

I don’t have a Javelin 9-ship in the air, only on the ground, the day after 60 Sqn’s disbandment ceremony. I have posted this before but here it is again. Sorry, don’t have the serials. I do have a 7-ship however.

Also, a photo of Belvedere XG476 in better times.

I was looking for any info re aircraft I remember fro my time at Seletar (Aug 1967 to March 1970). When I saw the picture of several Belvederes in that line, my jaw dropped. I went with my Dad to see them. I have not pictures of them like that before.
Likewise the picture of the Beverleys awaiting breaking brought back memories.
I could look at material like this all day and all of the night. I would love a picture of the Javelins nineship, April 1968. (Anyone have the serials?) Also pictures of Andovers of 52 Sqn.

Ian

Thanks for that Albert. I do not know why I said Jet Provost, yet another of the almost continuous “Senior moments”

Glyn

Just a few more to keep you going.

Glyn

1 F-86D Sabre 52-3638
2 Seahawks WF156 and WF200 at Lee-on-Solent June 1966
3 Belvedere HC1 XG453 at Seletar 1969? I have seen where this was destroyed by fire on start up on 18/03/69. It does not look firedamaged here but it does appear out of use.
4 Jet Provost T1 WV577 with an ex RAF comet in the background.
5 As 4
6 Twin Pioneer XM957 at Seletar in 1967

Nos.4 & 5 are taken at Farnborough and show a Piston(not Jet) Provost formerly used by ETPS(hence code) and the ‘ex RAF’ Comet is probably Mk.1 G-ALYU (BOAC markings just about visible) used for water tank tests after the fatal accidents. The fin is probably just an ‘odd’ fin added for completeness.

Just a few more to keep you going.

Glyn

1 F-86D Sabre 52-3638
2 Seahawks WF156 and WF200 at Lee-on-Solent June 1966
3 Belvedere HC1 XG453 at Seletar 1969? I have seen where this was destroyed by fire on start up on 18/03/69. It does not look firedamaged here but it does appear out of use.
4 Jet Provost T1 WV577 with an ex RAF comet in the background.
5 As 4
6 Twin Pioneer XM957 at Seletar in 1967

Generation game.

[QUOTE=ChiefofFairiesMark

You are right! The Aylesbury shot, slightly trimmed, appears in ‘Lincoln at War’ on page 169. The caption reads: ‘The breakers in action at Lindholme, Yorks, 18 July 1957’, and is credited to CS Waterfall. It’s strange how a very precise date gives authority to a totally incorrect caption!

If you were coming in as the Lincoln was going out, we must be of the same generation.
Allan[/QUOTE]
CoF,

Well I can ‘remember Pearl Harbour’… just, with three days to spare.

I suspect that both Charles Waterfall and myself made material available to Messrs Garbett and Goulding for their book and they just got the wrong caption on the right image. Definitely one of my shots.

Mark

Steve

Would very much like to see whatever Lincoln shots you have, when time permits, of course.

Mark

You are right! The Aylesbury shot, slightly trimmed, appears in ‘Lincoln at War’ on page 169. The caption reads: ‘The breakers in action at Lindholme, Yorks, 18 July 1957’, and is credited to CS Waterfall. It’s strange how a very precise date gives authority to a totally incorrect caption!

You were kind enough to post the Kenley shots some months ago in response to my thread that ran in parallel on this and another forum, concerning the identity of that particular Lincoln.

If you were coming in as the Lincoln was going out, we must be of the same generation.

I too have a formation-of-three shot, taken from the Radar Bay at Coltishall on BoB Day 1961 during yet another working weekend, trying to keep the Lightning AI radar working.

Happy days, well, happy-ish.

Allan

For ChiefofFairies

Here are a couple of Lincoln shots that I almost certainly will have posted before but…

Piled high at International Alloys, Aylesbury. I took this circa 1958 but I gather it has appeared in print, Lincoln at War’ perhaps, credited to a different location. 🙁

…and on the fire dump at Kenley at about the same time.

I was coming in as the Lincoln was going out. I do remember three in formation at Biggin Hill BoB and a static. I’ll dig the negs out.

Mark

Allan,

Many thanks for the additonal information. I have shed loads more Lincoln shots, but these are the only two scanned at present I’m afraid.

Steve

Thanks, Steve, nice pictures of CNCS Lincolns.

In common with most (all?) CNCS aircraft, the Lincolns were named after astronomical features, WD133/F being ‘Fomalhaut’. (Fomalhaut is the 17th or 10th brightest star seen from Earth, depending on which Google response you believe. Learn something every day, don’t you!). But I can’t locate a name for ‘M’ in the other picture, although I’m fairly sure that the aircraft was SX949.

Dare I say: Keep ‘em coming?

Allan

Allan,

You are quite right. I do not know how I mixed it up with another aircraft. WD132 perished on the fire dump at Watton.

Glyn