SMS88, Hello again, Yes have been trying to make something of what little is available re this logo ! Looking around various viking pics, they seem to have random flags, badges, logo’s etc all over with no two the same ! I have found the Airwork logo and will try posting it ????? Keith.
Thats close enough for me – mine is an Airwork Viking but not the same one as in your pic.WELLDONE thankyou!
SMS88, Yes i take on board what you say re viking, I will try to post a pic I have of a viking of Airwork, which when I zoomed the emblem below the cockpit window looks similar ? Could be, as I said earlier, someone else’s markings ? mmmm ? Keith
re the emblem,it looks like a similar but different black outline cartoon – yours shows 2 eyes, mine has 1, could be part of the same fleet although airline name typeface appears more squared off rather than slanting
Auster G-AHAI crashed Doncourt Les Conflans France 8.11.59
Marathon M.60 HPR 101 G-ALUB XA249 Converted Known History: First of the production aircraft. The CoA was issued on the 13th January 1950 for the Ministry of Supply, Woodley. Painted up as BEA ‘Rob Roy’. Converted to T. Mk.11 in 1952 as XA249. Built as G-ALUB, registered as such 24/06/1949, d/d 28/03/1952 to RAF, sold as scrap 15/01/1959 at No.8 MU Hullavington
This poor photograph may well be something to do with its launch into the air? My father was certainly present at some event anyway!
Wonderful photographs, especially those of the 2 Spits starting up in a cloud of smoke and MH434 coming into land.I have never had the camera to get such high quality shots.
My annual visit to Duxford is always my favourite day out each year. My pix are nothing special with my el-cheapo camera but I did manage to capture the new MkV in desert colours which was top of my agenda that perfect sunday in september…..
A photocopy I received from Australia about 20 years ago. I think it was from ‘Australian Women’s Weekly’ or something like that. The ‘Bill Martin Spitfire’ looked pretty impressive…but by clever photography you can make a spinner, a top cowl, a tank cover and a windscreen, all draped over a bit of Merlin… 🙂
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Terrific stuff – this reminds me of a farmer near Geraldton who told me back in 1992 that one of his father´s friends up the coast had an underground motorpool containing jeeps and tanks on his farm that built in preparation for a japanese invasion & was sealed up after the war contents intact.And then there is the story of the Hampshire disused railway tunnel supposedly stuffed with war surplus stuff including crated planes – wonderful for a few minutes fantasy but I bet our best prospects for finding buried Spitfires is onboard sunken ships that were carrying new crated examples to the Med (some Mk V s listed in Spitfire the history as lost at sea)
THANKYOU QLD Spitty for sharing that pic of JG668:)
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