“Jet – The Story of a Pioneer” by Sir Frank Whittle, 1953 edition hardback bought via Abe Books (no decent bookshops in Sweden and anyway all books are very expensive here!)

This was discussed at great length on this Forum a long time ago and I contributed a photograph, but searching has not turned up the thread. I, like many others, reject the idea completely – my photo showed the effect of the side bubble in the cockpit perspex which could, with some imagination, be thought to be a face.

Some first flight 50th anniversaries coming up:
December 1958 Fiat G91R
January 20 1959 Vickers Vanguard
February 20 1959 Handley Page Victor B Mk 2
February 28 1959 SE 3160 Alouette III
February 1959 Beriev Be 12 Tchaika
March 25 1959 Sikorsky S-60 Skycrane
April 5 1959 Aero XL-29 Delfin
May 4 1959 Pilatus PC-6 Porter
May 6 1959 English Electric Lightning T.4
June 10 1959 Sud Aviation SA 3200 Frelon
June 17 1959 Dassault Mirage IV-01
June 27 1959 DH Comet 4B
July 2 1959 Kaman H-2 (SeaSprite)
August 27 1959 Vertol YHC-1A
October 20 1959 Dassault Mirage IIIB
October 27 1959 Myasishchev M-50
November 4 1959 Lockheed Model 475 (their first helicopter)
November 15 1959 Canadair CL-44D Yukon
November 23 1959 Boeing 720
November 24 1959 Hiller X-18
December 12 1959 Avro Canada VZ-9V
December 30 1959 Sud Aviation Caravelle III
December 1959 Antonov An-24

Hello Super Sioux: here is one of the pictures I took that day, and there others (but not of Lightnings) on the same site, look for “1968”:
http://www.planesandchoppers.com/picture/number4138.asp
Unfortunately digital cameras didn’t exist then and film (and developing) cost money . . .
Papa Lima

Very useful for me – living next to the Göta Älv in Gothenburg – I can see when interesting vessels are about to come by, nip up the hill next door with my camera and get great photos – which are then posted on the Shipsandharbours.com web site (see Countries/Sweden).

Definitely worth visiting, I was there a few weeks ago. However rather difficult to find as the local people don’t seem to know that it’s there! Even though I speak some Polish, I walked straight past it from the nearest tram stop! I discovered later that the clue is a wing placed vertically in the woods – the museum entrance is along the nearby road, behind a new housing estate. There are no signs whatsoever!
I will be putting my pictures on the planesandchoppers web site when I have time – it’s a real treasure trove!

I shall (as I do once or twice a week) tomorrow be giving a guided tour to visitors in the Aeroseum, an underground hangar near Gothenburg the size of 3 football pitches and containing such aircraft as Viggens and Drakens. Is this the only museum that permits people to sit in Draken and Viggen cockpits?
It was completed in 1955 and initially used to house a squadron of J 39 Tunnans, later Hawker Hunters.
It is located on the far side of Gothenburg City airport (Säve) to which Ryanair flies from Stansted and Prestwick.
We are mounting a major air show at Säve on 30-31 August, which will have Swedish Air Force participation (including the Gripen); see the Aeroseum web site, which I have now translated into English.
(Shameless plug)