thanks Mark,
my spelling is not what it used to be I see :p
Cees

Well, IIRC I read in an old FlyPast that this aircraft suffered an engine faillure and managed to glide back to base at an impresside gliding ratio.

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Cees

Hasting WD492 is the aircraft on the Greenland ice cap, been there since Sept. 16th 1952 when in atrocious conditions supporting the British North Greenland Expedition it crashed near to the two tents of the Expedition at 8000 ft altitude! A USAF Albatross landed on the snow, without the use of skis and carried the three injured crew to safety using JATO and a run of nearly five miles before becoming airborne!
At Nicosia Cyprus in the early Sixties I had the opportunity to see Hastings from the OCU doing a bit of warmweather flying including the special landing which was the opposite of STOL more of a LTOL (Land Takeoff Land) for most of the main runway. The resident Hasting squadron No. 70 did not use that system showing that the Hastybird takes a bit of getting used to before being proficient in its handling!
I am surprised that the Halifax wallahs hav’nt had a sniff at the Greenland remains for a possible set of wings?Ray

Too cold for my liking, but if LW170 doesn’t come up I wouldn’t be surprised if Karl Kjarsgaard will put on snowboots.:p

Cees

Those Ballioll seats look familiar, are they the same as Hurricane’s?

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Cees

CD

The Hastings was developed from the Halifax during the war and used a new fuselage. First design was using Halifax wings and tail but later a single fin arrangement was decided upon. In a way it was the same way AVRO developed the York by using standard Lancaster wings and empennage.

The larger diameter fuselage of the Hastings/Hermes made some changes to the centresection near the flaps and the span of the intermediate wingsection between the inner and outer engines was wider. And the engine nacelles were underslung. Although the undercarriage was also Messier it used a slimmer casting so looks a bit unusual compared to the Halifax.

But apart from that the wings are exactly the same and even have the same partnumber prefix 57 being the Halifax. So a large part of the original Halifax design soldiered on into the seventies, well how about that.:)
I was told by Karl Kjarsgaard that a Hastings centre section was extant in a Malta scrapyard a few years ago.

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Cees

I wouldn’t trust myself with a Hastings as I would want to rob it of ít’s wings and turn them into a Halifax.
:p :p :p
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Cees