G-ASEA and avion ancien – both replies are very helpful and intriguing, for perhaps our Avia is still alive and well after all, but she was not the airframe restored at Booker. I will enquire of the Vintage Glider Club in the hope that they might know of her.
G-ASEA the Avia 60P known to you was a French version of the L-Spatz produced by a firm called Avialsa. ie AVIAL Société Anonyme and is called the A60 Fauconnet. M. François Ragot was a French glider pilot so successful in the World Open Championships in the 1970s, and I hope still flying.
I now only fly gliders in my make-believe world of Microsoft Flight Simulator X, with a very pleasant bunch of folks in a virtual gliding club. One day I want to make a virtual model Avia for FSX.
Thank you both very much.
Soggy
G-ASEA – my apologies, it seems you are right M. Ragot may well have brought BGA680 to Booker!
Thank you K8B – if that glider is still extant I will be very pleased indeed.
Soggy
my grandfather served in the RFC during ww1 and was staioned close to some American base. When the war ended, the Americans dug a massive hole in the ground and chucked in all sorts of stuff, including vehicles, are these things still there ? needless to say the brits looked on in absolute bewilderment.The Americans when asked couldnt be bothered to take it all home
Yea – and the Brits too, but we couldn’t afford to take it home.
Soggy
Try the Malta Aviation Museum.
http://www.maltaaviationmuseum.com/
They’re doing one right now. David Polidano should know the subject inside out.
G-ANFW – that’s the Tiger that George Collins bought as surplus for aerotowing down at the Cornish Gliding (& Flying) Club at Perranporth in the 1950’s. It is really good to see her well restored in RAF colours and to flying condition. I had a good few tows behind that machine, but regret never got to fly in her.
Soggy
Thank you for the photographs.
You’re OK PJ, RAF Cranwell is in Cornwall: http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/first-world-war-bomb-found-on-cornish-air-base/ar-BBOayHr?ocid=mailsignout
Mk 3 Cortina, steeing arm:
https://picclick.co.uk/Ford-Cortina-MK3-MK4-MK5-new-manual-steering-292517290858.html
Looks close?
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Doesn’t it belong to one ‘BADEN’ rather than Bader?
Maybe the British Military Powerboat team might be able to help at their forum:
Phil
I know this shouldn’t be a guessing game, and so apologies as this nothing more than a guess, but I thought maybe FE2B. The reason I say that is because a FE2B prop boss with the blades cut off looks very like that. We had one with a clock mounted on it. I’ll get my coat… best wishes, Phil.
… and a memorial: http://www.ipswich-lettering.co.uk/myrtlememorial.html to Sqn Ldr Beddow (apologies if this a ‘double-post’, had a ‘bit-of-trouble’…)
… and a memorial to Sqn Ldr Beddow: http://www.ipswich-lettering.co.uk/myrtlememorial.html
I saw that Auster (and Maurice) land at Perranporth. The Auster had no fuselage fabric aft of the cockpit. Maurice said it was a ‘Bleriot’ Auster. True.
Any chance the nose art character might be ‘Betty Boop’?