Looking for four front booster rocket mounting brackets for a Bloodhound misssile, Mk1 preferably although Mk 2 will do. Also the rear booster rocket main mounting bracket which sits at the rear of the main body of the misssile.
Not disagreeing,thought it may have been a typo, hence the question mark
1958 ?
Ex RT520 First registered in 1950
G-ASME was stripped for spares and now consists of a frame with wheels. If you need more info go on the CAA web site G-INFO and type in the registratIon BIHX. The owner of that Gyro is the owner of whats left of G-ASME,his address is included in the details
Just a thought, there is an assumption this is from a wartime aircraft? North Coates was used by various MUs post war for rendering down aircraft. There doesn’t seem to be any records of what was scrapped, but eye witness reports talk of big aircraft as well as small. The only ones I know of that were recorded were a Lancaster, the fuselage of Churchills York ‘Ascalon’ and a Hastings In addition to aircraft past their sell by date there were also crashed aircraft. So I suppose aircraft such as the Lincoln for example are possible candidates. The scrap areas were nowhere near the part of the airfield where this panel was found but quiet close to a taxiway. Its possible I suppose for this to have fallen from a recovery vehicle transiting scrap from the compound to the airfields back gate which is close by and consequently discarded. This doesn’t answer the question though of how it came to be buried given the fact it was previously unploughed ground. The facts remain though no other wreckage was evident and the ground has been ploughed again since the discovery and nothing else has surfaced
More questions than answers methinks
Good to see the old bird looking good. The bits promised from North Coates arrived by air mail on Sunday, keep up the good work up mate
I have created a painting of the panel as accurate as can be, as you can see a lot of the surface paint has gone but it has been possible to get a fairly decent reproduction. For some reason yet to be fathomed out I am unable to upload images onto this site. Fellow enthusiast M-62A can and the image has been E Mailed to him for inclusion.
The panel was found on the surface of a part of the airfield close to where the old wartime runway would have been. The land had been ploughed for the first time since the airfields inception.
Curiously no other evidence of aircraft wreckage can be found nearby, and has been ploughed again since the find, agaain with no further evidence. A number of aircraft came to grief in that location including Hudson, Beaufort, Beaufighter and Mosquito and of course the B17. The only one that might fit the bill is a Wellington X1V of 612 Sqdn.
Post war a lot aircraft were brought to North Coates for scrapping but none were located in that area
It is destined for the heritage collection at North Coates operated by the flying club
If Scampton was near Hull Look North would be full of info so dont expect anything from that extremely biased tv news programme
Thanks Woodbridge 10, I was on the flightpath for the group of five but was unable to identify them other than two clipped wing variants
Can anybody identify which aircraft were in the individual groups ?
Thanks Antoni.
I will have a look at his site
I cannot find a publicatation penned by Phil Listerman relating to the Hurricane. Caan you provide a title please
Thanks
Have you tried Global Aviation at Humberside Airport ?