This will run and run..oh no have to stop…getting a blister….
Excellent article here which does mention both,
“People have always tended to lump the Lysander and the Fiesler Storch in the same category. This is nonsense. The Lysander is designed to go FAST as well as slow. Once the wings are cleaned up and gills closed, those 850 horses can be gainfully employed, and the aircraft can easily do 180 mph or more. Try that in a Storch! Vne† in a dive is 300 mph! The Mercury can be made to burn about 30 gal/hr with the mixture in “weak” and power at 2,200 rpm. This gives 140mph IAS (Indicated Air Speed). The single tank (just behind the pilot) contains about 95 Imp. gal.”
http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/486/Lysander-Pilot-Report.aspx
fascinating book cover pic, I have researched Blackpool Squires Gate wartime history and this is a 256 sqn Defiant from there,not a pic I have seen before.
A few sample pages of the book here https://issuu.com/pixeltweaks/docs/warbirds_of_walney_issuu
zooming in shows the airview has 18 blister hangars located at the North side among the dunes.
Blisters visible in the stills taken from a film circa 1940 Walney Island which also give an idea of the buildings..
http://www.walney-island.com/walney_air_show_2003.htm
Here you are Tim. http://derbosoft.proboards.com/thread/20647/el-berriel-gran-canaria-28
Greetings and thank you from the far north of Scotland..one day I will get there, meanwhile the reports keep me in touch.
Thank you Andy for the editorial viewpoint, I do not mind the variety and the choices now are much greater, we expect colour content when in the days of my youth we were eventually given a colour cover…Air Pictorial or a free insert in Flight International (much treasured were the Charles Brown air to airs). I only have one small moan, can someone ask the graphic designer to leave all of the aircraft in the print version (Flypast) he keeps clipping wingtips off and ease up on the rivet ridden underprint designs.
I seem to recall that some big Uk museum had a sea recovery of an even rarer aircraft recently and have a huge challenge to make an exhibit from the assorted bits which resembles an airframe. If they struggle to achieve the desired result can you see why the p38 is being left alone? Our good fortune in the Uk is that we have several quality projects already in progress which will result in superb flying examples of aviation history and they will join a varied population of aircraft which moves around enabling many to share the sights and sounds.
That is one hell of a coffee table…
Chipping Warden had a number of blisters, surprised that these buildings were around recently http://www.pixture.co.uk/Pages/Chipping%20Norton.htm
Mention of DO 24 leads me to this painting which i found by chance just now,I had no idea the Dutch were active like this in WW 2…http://www.wings-fine-arts.com/robert-taylor/chance-encounter-limited-edition
Certainly counts as very unexpected Ian! I was just 12 when a school trip got me to Belgium, we stayed in Ostend and i recall the airport nearby. One day we called there and I had a feeling that i had seen 2 Spitfires in D day stripes which later seemed impossible. As i continued to grow into a total aviation person i started to buy magazines and found the confirmation, a photo in Air Pictorial of Cogea Spitfires at Ostend for filming,perhaps The Longest Day?
sands covered it back up thank goodness
Saw a partial fuselage on display at MOSI manchester.
It is refreshing and unusual to see such clarity when questions are answered on any forum and especially here where some threads have disintegrated or had to be closed. My thanks to those posting and also hope that the many who are just trying to restore and preserve aircraft and artefacts can continue to make progress.
Gary Brindle(former RAF AATC and researcher for AAA) http://www.scotaviaimages.co.uk