Here’s challenge to Auster modellers – the 1951 Auster tests with a Bonmartini caterpillar undercarriage!
Picture from page 67 of the book in my earlier post.
Try the May 1994 Flypast article on this subject – I lent out my old Flypasts and never got them back . . .
“Never a borrower nor lender be” (old saying., and how true!)
I also have a feeling that this came up on a thread a year or two ago but couldn’t find it via “Search”.
Coastal Command Liberator Mk I (LB-30B) as operated by 120 Sqn – must be VLR! Max. speed 292.5 mph, cruise 228 mph. 2200 miles range with 4000 lb bomb load, max. range 4000 miles.
(Info from the Baugher web site)
It’s a pleasure, Barnowl!
Is there any chance that the “monument” in the sand dunes in picture 5 still exists? Does anyone know what that biplane commemorates?
Excellent job of scanning, Pete, I guess you used at least 600 dpi. I go up to 1200 for really small negatives myself (another Pete).
A similar but far more comprehensive source that I find very useful although it’s not on the Net is:
“The Smithsonian NASM Directory of Airplanes (ouch!), their designers and manufacturers” edited by Dana Bell, ISBN 1-85367-490-7 that I picked up for a song the last time I was at Duxford (too long ago!)
382 pages of solid and almost fault-free information!
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