I too have a soft spot for Freighters and a question for you: Does anyone know the colors carried by G-AIMC on it’s 1947 sales tour ‘down under’? It ended up at Wau in PNG after passing through Australia and NZ IIRC. Bristol “house” colours perhaps?
David M2

There is a photo of IMC departing Sydney in 1947 in ‘British Civil Aircraft since 1919’ by AJ Jackson(1st edition) sadly i can’t scan it. But it is largely silver with(I assume) a thick dark blue line that comes up eather side from a V at the nose and goes along the top of the fuselarge and the bottom on the tail, Bristol titles on the tail and Australian flag and union flag on the nose.

I found this on a trawl through some long lost archives. What I can tell you is that it was taken in France in July 1983 (on Kodachrome 64!). I recall, vaguely, that it was at Beauvais. Can anyone shed any further light on the aircraft history etc?

TIA

CM

Beauvais would be about right I saw it there a couple of times. Think it used to do horse charters out of Stansted. Sadly missed, a big loss to the UK scene.

Loveley aircraft, nice shot. Just think in its day this was one of the most popular record breaking aircraft. People flew these to South Africa and Australia 😮 , must have been made of sterner stuff in those days.
EG G0ABNH flown by Lt C.Byas flew to cape Town in 10 days in 1931, and C.A Butler flew G-ABRE Croydon-Darwin in 9 days also in 1931!

I think LGW is the worse place for a second runway. You have to buld it to the south which means destroying the current maintiance area, catering area and a couple of business parks! Something that would not be easy, and cheap to do.
The LHR runway does involve demolishing a village but is probably cheaper! Stansted being pretty much the same. Why is London the only city to have 5 airports!

I think for this sort of thing to be a sucess you need to have the convinenance of a bizjet. I.e. no turn up 2 hours before for checkin, perhaps operate from somewhere like Northolt or Farnborough with good business terminals. Lets face it if you are going to pay several thousand for a business only flight you don’t want to have to fight Joe public at the airport.
Lufthansa allready operate A319BJ’s across the pond from hamburg I think.

Thanks guys, always wondered why they were there. Lets just hope nothing like this ever happerns again.