Thanks AA. I will also look at Peter M’s Air-Britain tomes on Miles aircraft, when I get chance, to check what his more recent findings say.
We have duplicated threads – another was started hours ago:
https://forum.keypublishing.com/forum/historic-aviation/3838239-warbird-collector-paul-allen-passes
At 0.34 the Ashton can be seen by the hangar. Are we talking about two different aircraft in the background?
Alertken is spot on. It is definitely the Ashton he identified and it was scrapped at Hatfield after the date of the Trident FF.
Although wiki can be a useful useful resource it can be unreliable and was not the reference for my comments in post #5.
There are more traditional sources of well researched information about the Junkers F.13. There is reference to the various radial powered F.13s in certain books. Examples of this include:
“European Transport Aircraft since 1910” by John Stroud published by Putnam 1966
“Junkers F13 det forsta trafikflygplanet i Sverige” Flyghistorisk Revy 1992
Oxcart
Junkers also built F.13s which utilised radial power plants. One of those engine manufacturers was P&W. You may be more familiar with the examples of F.13 which sported an in-line power plant but the set up in the replica, although not precisely the same engine as those radials used originally, is not unrepresentative. They are using the replica for passenger flights and so the choice of a more mainstream power plant is hardly surprising.
The fact that such an amazing flying replica has been constructed is good enough for me!
The Bulldog XX691 became AS0020 with the Maltese. It was involved in the accident reported in the following link.
https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20070806/local/afm-aircraft-crash-lands-in-gozo.8965
Already covered here:
https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?145608-DH-Venom-down-in-the-US
The Meteor which Marty bought was actually WA591. I met him several times during his training on it and when he collected it – great person, terrible loss.
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It was a single seat Venom which has been operated in the US for many years. There were reportedly a couple of people sadly injured on the ground, in addition to the loss of the pilot, which could explain why some folk are confused about if it was a two seat aircraft. Sadly the pilot is someone we got to know and respect.
I assume the enquirer is asking about the DC-3 which was also parked on the far side of the runway but which was not part of the flying display. That was Aero Passion’s HB-IRJ.
Not so Propstrike. An example has recently returned to the skies in Australia.
Tim
B-25 N3675G is sporting a nosewheel disc. I have seen this example over in the USA both with and without this fitted. I have seen a few other B-25s with them. Is there a practical reason for fitment? Does it indicate a different type of hub to the norm is also installed or is it merely a hubcap and style choice?
Interesting to hear what really happened to their Mig 21s. When they were still active I got to sit in one at Rovaniemi air base – it was quite a beast.
Sounds like that book needs to be moved to the fiction category then.
This Howard was SFAIK obtained by its current owner from Duncan Baker when he had it stored at Exeter (where it had been hangared for many years). When it first came into the U.K. it visited Coventry for some radio work by the late John Coggins. It was indeed stored at Shobdon for some years but moved to Exeter where it was based. It flew only occasionally and visited shows at Wroughton and Coventry. In more recent years, when it was obtained by its present owner, it was ferried up from Exeter to Coventry and was hangared alongside the Air Atlantique Classic Flight collection. Some engineering work was done while it was at CVT. The owner kindly allowed us to pull the aircraft out and fire it up during one of the night photography sessions we organised annually back then. The owner I believe was touring parts of Europe in it when an engine problem resulted in it being housed at the Red Bull facility until it was fit to fly again. It then returned to CVT from where it subsequently departed to the USA.
WillL not the same as G-LOSM, I have had the good fortune to fly in it, that aircraft has a D/V panel in the port side of its screen.