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  • in reply to: Bitteswell, Engine testbeds and Farnborough '54 #1110402
    Blue_2
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    Excellent pics Blue_2.. thanks for sharing them. Are there any names on the back of the Python Lanc photos by any chance.?

    Rob.

    Evening all,
    quick post because I’m just on me way to the pub 😀
    On the head-on Python shot-
    L-R i presume- Me(?), Harry Phelps, Stan Brown, Bill Todd, Jim Hartley, Ernie Leek.
    On the shot under the Port Python install-
    Me(?), Ernie Leek, Sam Brown, Bill Todd, Harry Phelps, Jim Hartley.

    Would love to know who ‘Me’ is, he doesn’t identify himself in any of the shots…

    If anyone’s interested let me know and I’ll do the Canberra ones too.

    in reply to: Bitteswell, Engine testbeds and Farnborough '54 #1110123
    Blue_2
    Participant

    I think it’s the B-88 / Y.B.1 WB797, with the Double Mamba engine.

    Just looking closely at the original photo it is serialled WB797. Give that man the coconut!

    in reply to: Bitteswell, Engine testbeds and Farnborough '54 #1110129
    Blue_2
    Participant

    Thanks, already had the serial from the many other pics I’ve got, not the exact date though. As well as the shots of it with the test crew in front of it I’ve a beauty of it airborne I meant to post, will do when I get chance. Anyone know why it crashed?

    There are no names on the photo showing 3 chaps stood in front of the Sapphire Canberra, but the other shot I’ve posted the back reads-
    ‘Me’ (Still want to know who Me is…), Ken Jordon, Norman Lee, —- Robinson.

    Pageno1, thanks for the extra details on the Blackburn. It and the Wyvern (VW868) are both captioned as being flown by a chap by the name of Tom Prickett by the way…

    in reply to: Future Of RAF Museum? #1109925
    Blue_2
    Participant

    ‘Sorry everyone, the steelwork was found to be too badly corroded to save. So we trashed the lot.’ Anyone care to wager on a different outcome? 😡

    in reply to: Bitteswell, Engine testbeds and Farnborough '54 #1109743
    Blue_2
    Participant

    What a waste, suspect its small bits of Wyvern now sadly…:(
    The Canberra shots, there’s about another 6 of them, show different groups of people in front of the a/c. I didn’t post them all because they all look fairly similar. I’ll look through the captions for that name when I’ve a sec and let you know.

    in reply to: Bitteswell, Engine testbeds and Farnborough '54 #1109637
    Blue_2
    Participant

    Thanks John, not got the book, I’ll have to hunt a copy out

    in reply to: Halifax Cockpit Project #1109691
    Blue_2
    Participant

    Wow!
    What a project, nice to see for me, living in proper Halibag Country (East Yorks.)! Keep posting updates and keep up the great work; I’ll be following this one 😀

    in reply to: Elvington airfield. (York) #1109703
    Blue_2
    Participant

    How likely is it that it’ll actually be worth me trekking down the 1079 for… Hmmm…

    in reply to: A couple of hours to spare.. #1108808
    Blue_2
    Participant

    Ooh yes please! :diablo:

    in reply to: WW2 Aircraft Wrecks in the English channel(2008) #1108812
    Blue_2
    Participant

    I seem to recall a Starfighter visible at very low tide off Flamborough Head for a few years, not sure if its still there in any meaningful form though. A chap I used to work for earned his living fishing Bridlington bay up to about 20 years ago, knew where loads of wrecks were including aircraft. Doubt there’ll be much left now, given the bits of aluminium that can be found on the beach after a good storm…

    in reply to: EE Lightning F53 ZF579 #1108610
    Blue_2
    Participant

    What a thread. And what a project! Can’t wait to hear news of her being fired up 😀

    in reply to: Converting a Mk2 Shackleton into a Mk1… #1108464
    Blue_2
    Participant

    Fair enough- maybe I leaped before I looked! 🙂

    You’d have to fill in the ‘ole underneath for the radar too!

    in reply to: A Cold Saturday Morning at Duxford – 13Feb09 #1108475
    Blue_2
    Participant

    …Followed by a formation of Hampden, Whitley, Wimpey ideally!

    in reply to: Converting a Mk2 Shackleton into a Mk1… #1108479
    Blue_2
    Participant

    Only guess – because there are no complete MK1’s left??

    Jon

    True, just seems a strange idea to me. Given that the II’s are historic airframes in their own right, why convert one into something it ain’t?

    in reply to: Skyraider #1108489
    Blue_2
    Participant

    …..eh….?

    Looks like a Gannet with a go faster stripe and (nearly) as ugly:eek:

    Baz

    Hmmm…Looks like the lovechild of the Wyvern and Gannet…:D

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