dark sea grey is BS381c No 638

Were any of the Stirling Transports sold on to overseas operators etc and did “aviation Traders” purchase any over here? I know freddie laker bought quite a few Halifaxes/ Haltons, does anyone have any photos of his “carvair” conversion work being carried out and were all of them scrapped without trace after they were disposed of, thanks:cool: 😎 😎

One of the Belgian registered Stirling Vs crashed in China…………..

Yep thats the one i knew it would be an obvious one. I havent seen this film in ages [even though i have a dvd copy!!].It is a film that gets mentioned a lot due to the low flying B-17 but the rest gets muddled up with other films in my adled brain
Cheers

Wasn’t the low flying B17 actually in The War Lover – iirc flown by John Crewsden (?sp). There was a wonderful photo taken looking down on it at (?)Bovingdon circulating here a while ago

A dilemma

But once you’ve found your Spitfire in a crate – what do you do with it?

There are hundreds of Spitfires outside of the box – but you may have the only one left in a crate

is it actually historically more important to leave it as the last crated Spitfire??

Air Enthusiast no 132

Won’t be able to find it anywhere………….

A great loss Key – i have every copy since issue 1 – must be getting on for 25-30 years now

perhaps you could tell us where we might now find a suitable alternative source for the esoteric or the detailed unlikely to be covered by FP

I was under the impression that Black 6 is “flyable, but nailed to the ground”?

I was referring to the first time around rather than the second, enforced, rebuild

if anybody needs to know about the flying qualities and characteristics of a Dora, presumably all they need to do is ask Eric Brown. After all, as a test pilot, he tested much of the captive Luftwaffe at Farnborough after the war and is well able to compare it with the hundreds of other types in his log book.

I seem to remember a series of articles in Air International in the early days that gave his impressions of a number of Luftwaffe aircraft

FE2b

The “other monthly Historic Aviation periodical” reports that the FE2b is being prepared for a move to an external contractor for further work prior to fabricking and painting by the RAFM conservation centre at Cosford. It has apparently been worked upon at a workshop in Southampton

Good to see that in due course we shall see another extinct type reborn

One can only hope that it will be possible to freely view it when it is incarcerated in the G-W building or do we still have to time our visits?