My contact has responded as follows:

Re the black Lanc I have been able to contact someone who was at Westlands before me in March 1945 but it did not ring a bell with him.
Landing a Lanc should not have been a problem up the not so steep slope from east to west into the prevailing wind.
But the Seafire landings up a short SE-NW slope across the then main entry road at going home times were worth seeing. This was a short steep strip joining the main east-west grass runway at the east end of the field
and called for a high rate of descent after clipping the trees on the main road by the Quicksilver Mail pub and a burst of power to to check the sink and go up the hill on to the airfield.

Sorry we can’t be of better help.

brgds
Alan

Hi Pogno,

I doubt very much whether this one got much of an airing on the air routes, I didn’t hear of it after that, not that I chased it at all.

Yes, the good old days at Blackbushe and Odiham. I visited Blackbushe a couple of weeks ago, and bumped into an old friend, Arthur A., who hasn’t changed one bit in the more than 40 years I’ve been away. Arthur mentioned that Baz H. surprisingly turned up recently, that John L is still around, though John C sadly has passed away. Another I believe went to the USA in an official aviation capacity…;)

An amazing community, this aviation!

Back to the thread, what about the Lincolnian? Here’s an excellent site…http://www.choiquehobbies.com.ar/revista/notas/Lincoln/Lincolne.htm

vbrgds
Alan

Longshot, apols for the time it took to respond, not yet sure how to get meself an email when something is posted (however, right at the foot of this page I see I can subscribe to this thread, so I’ll give it a go)

I’ll see what I can dig up on G-AFIF. I have DC-buff acquaintance not far away who could have something on it. He is also in cahoots with the keeper of the museum at Frankfurt Airport, so perhaps we’ll be lucky. May take a while however….

At this point I merely wanted to chuck a shot of a Noratlas into the fray, but a JATO version, a Nord 2508, marked Kalinga Airlines (I believe), at Blackbushe in September 1959. Registered F-BFRG.

Why it was there almost the whole run of the adjacent Farnborough Air Show I can only surmise – it was cheaper to park it at the ‘Bushe than go the whole way at Farnborough! The history of Kalinga is also quite interesting (2 DC-3 that were both lost to acccidents, and an eccentric owner…), anyway, here goes, and please excuse the poor quality (scan of a bad scan from a slide).

cheers
atb

This won’t assist the original reason for this thread, but I recall Alan Bristow’s telling me that he flew for Airwork from Blackbushe, in the Viking.

When you look at his history, and consider the connections with groups such as Cobham, Serco, FR, BHS etc, it makes fascinating reading, and perhaps goes to show just how interwoven all these MROs were (and are…).
I’ve just ordered a copy of Leading from the Front (but be aware there are two books with this title!), and am looking forward to an interesting read this winter.
Alan Bristow set up Air Whaling in 1953 at Henstridge Aerodrome, then Bristow Helicopters in 1955. Four years later BHL became part of Airwork Ltd… http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Bristow-Helicopters-Ltd-Company-History.html

Possibly nothing new here, but I thought it might be of interest.

rgds
b_d

Greetings to Sergey Netchaev, navigator on the An-225 at Farnsbarns and Paris (and doubtless elsewhere).

I have it on my odds & sods page
brgds
Alan
http://www.english-for-flyaways.de

Hallo Stoneleigh,

Welcome to the forum.

I shall forward a copy of your query to Tommy Thompson, who worked at Westlands immediately after the war, but may have an idea as to what it was you saw.

I’ll post any response.

brgds
Alan
[url]http://www.english-for-flyaways.de

How about the Budd Conestoga – http://www.microworks.net/PACIFIC/aviation/rb_conestoga.htm

Believe there was one at the Pima Air Museum back in 1981.

brgds
Alan

AndyG

Might that have been Dieter Schmitt, by any chance?
Fascinating thread.
And does the Belgrade museum still have its 190?

brgds

Alan