By: chumpy - 5th March 2008 at 19:01
[QUOTE=avion ancien;1224377]Well I’ll be b******d. It’s a bit like London buses – none for ages and then three come along together!
…Yes bloody annoying things buses!!
By: avion ancien - 5th March 2008 at 18:41
Well I’ll be b******d. It’s a bit like London buses – none for ages and then three come along together!
Thanks for the offer, Chumpy. I have quite a collection of press cuttings, and other material, relating to the crash of TC-SEV but I’d be grateful to see any that are new to me. I’ll send you a PM later this evening, detailing what I have. If you have any others, scans of those will be of great interest to me.
By: chumpy - 5th March 2008 at 18:33
TC-Sev
Here she is all new and loverly at Hurn July 1958.
Also have a number of press clippings relating to the Gatwick crash, can do some scans if required.
Cheers, Chumpy.
By: avion ancien - 5th March 2008 at 18:29
Two bw photos – but
can’t say anything about reliability!
http://www.sanalpilot.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7891
Methinks they are the real thing. Thank you wieesso. My understanding is that TC-SEL was not airworthy at the time it was ‘made up’ to be TC-SEV for the TV documentary. So unless someone took the trouble to dismantle it and ship it to the Lebanon and re-erect it there – or built a 1/1 scale model of the Beirut control tower behind it in the Turkish museum – it looks as if the forum has triumphed again. Now all I need to do is to learn some Turkish so that I can understand the posts associated with the photos on the Turkish forum – unless there is a Turkish speaking forum member who can help me here!
By: Newforest - 5th March 2008 at 16:58
Think you have hit the jackpot there Wieesso, looks very period. Trust you to get a Heron into the thread but the best is the DH.86B!:D
The DH.86B, G-AFAJ became TC-ERK.
By: wieesso - 5th March 2008 at 11:57
Two bw photos – but
can’t say anything about reliability!
http://www.sanalpilot.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7891
By: avion ancien - 4th March 2008 at 20:46
Many thanks, Newforest. If I asked the easy ones, it wouldn’t be half so interesting!
I think that the crash photo is of TC-SET. Clearly it went the same way but a decade later!
As to the “special” photo of TC-SEV, the fact that this is described as being in “retro c/s” suggests that it is TC-SEL in disguise yet again!
It does seem that photos of TC-SEV are in the ‘Holy Grail’ league!
By: Newforest - 4th March 2008 at 19:27
You sure come up with the difficult ones don’t you! Presumably the photos in this Turkish forum are the subterfuge Viscount, but there is a part of the crashed aircraft.
http://wowturkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=221337
These people say they have a photo of TF-SEV, you could ask if it IS the real one!
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