Originally posted by RobAnt
Must have the wrong url, this is just advertising!

It was there in November. Suppose the meter ran out!
mmitch.

The Mail on Sunday.
mmitch.

Originally posted by pzulba
Digressing slightly!!!

On basis that much of original fleet of C130K’s (Mk1’s & 3’s) are being retired/sold off;

Are there any plans to preserve examples at Duxford/Cosford/Hendon?

Apart from the sterling work done by ALL the fleet over the years, there must be individual aircraft that have ‘noteworthy’ histories eg Falklands Ops and many other events

On hearing that the C130K ‘Falklands Tanker’ converted a/c were running out of hours, last year I emailed Marshalls. RAF Lynham and IWM Duxford about preserving an example. Not one replied 🙁
mmitch.

Well done! And you managed to get your photo in A****plane in the back seat (for the moment!)
mmitch.

I found the article from A***plane June 2001. Essentially Ant is correct. The 2 seat Hurri was devised by a US Aircobra squadron who had a Hurricane as a target tug. They converted it so they could take their ground crews up for a flight.
If you use Ask Jeeves for Jim Pearce refs it throws up one ‘Aeroplane June 2001’ which reprints the whole article. The full link is too long to go here.
mmitch.
http://www.ask.co.uk

Dipping into a book of ‘Flight’ reports it describes the Dragonfly as improved structually with as you say a smaller cabin for one pilot and four passengers. The Rapide carries 6 or more.
mmitch.

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