Didn’t all the noise hoo-ha start at JFK many years ago?
Apropos ownership, I seem to remember that BA only paid a quid each for them! Or was it just an (old) penny?
Didn’t all the noise hoo-ha start at JFK many years ago?
Apropos ownership, I seem to remember that BA only paid a quid each for them! Or was it just an (old) penny?
Anson in the Alberta Aviation Museum
Perhaps you mean this one, Albert – I’m not ready with the captions yet!
I am certain it’s a Curtiss, and most likely a Model D-III; I was hoping someone in Alberta would be able to give a definitive answer, but never mind . . .
I can always E-mail the museum itself!
Thank you anyway.
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=30634
Here’s the thread with my answer to you, Gerry H! You can have another look at the Hooters girl here too!
In 21 days we visited 34 air shows and museums, stretching from Oshkosh and Winnipeg to Vancouver Island! The AAM at Edmonton was excellent (we took the Rockies train from Edmonton), and were given a tour that included the Ventura restoration. That will be the subject of another of my little threads soon, when I have assembled all the captions. Perhaps you’ve already seen my Lancaster and Mars threads from the same trip.
SUB ARRIVES IN SCOTLAND
A Canadian submarine that was left drifting in the mid-Atlantic following a fire five days has arrived at a Scottish naval base.
The blaze on board HMCS Chicoutimi, 100 miles off the west coast of Ireland on Tuesday afternoon, claimed the life of father-of-two Lieutenant Chris Saunders, 32, and left two fellow crewmen in hospital.
The former Royal Navy sub has now arrived at HM Naval Base Clyde at Faslane, near Glasgow.
An MoD spokesman said the replacement of the salvage ship, the Anglian Price, by US support vessel Carolyn Chouest had “substantially” speeded up the operation to get the Chicoutimi and its 54 crew to shore.
The arrival time was brought forward thanks to it being towed by US support vessel Carolyn Chouest.
Sky News web site
Aaaah, shame!
Well, in that case . . .
1. de Havilland D.H.100 Vampire F. 3 RCAF 17071 with “Bat Head” nose art of No.442 ‘City of Vancouver’ Squadron, Royal Canadian Auxiliary Air Force in 1954. Built in the UK at Preston, it was RAF serial VP745 and among the first batch of 85 for the RCAF, shipped to Toronto and reassembled at Downsview. After the RCAF Vampires were struck off charge in June 1958, 26 (plus 4 spares) were sold to the Formetal Division of Fliteways Inc., West Bend, Wisconsin, in 1958 for possible use in the US civil market as executive jets or fast private “hacks”. These included 17071 which was registered N6883D. Paul Mantz, the Hollywood film pilot, was known to have operated two, including 17071/N6883D.
2. Vampire N11933 (which is not a currently valid US registration). Displayed courtesy of Joe MacBryan of Buffalo Air Services. Does anyone know more about this one?
Do you mean surviving airworthy Vampires?
I would hope that they would receive instructions from air traffic control!
I would hope that they would receive instructions from air traffic control!
And in English “manditory” is “mandatory” – this could go on for ever!
IIRC, it is airworthy!
Further to your question, this is the relevant extract from the Canadian current registrations register, allotting CF-RAF to the A75N1 c/n 755168 (the one in my photo):
” RAF”,”Continuing Registration”,”Immatriculation permanente”,”Boeing”,”A75N1″,”75 5168″,”755168″,”Boeing Airplane Company”,”Type Certificate “,”Certificat de type”,”Aeroplane”,”Avion”,””,””,””,”Piston”,”Piston”,”1″,””,”1451″,”N”,”2004/06/21″,”2004/06/01″,””,”Commercial”,”Commercial”,”Certificate of Airworthiness”,”Certificat de navigabilité”,”M”,”U.S.A.”,”ÉTATS-UNIS”,”1943/01/01″,”CANADA “,”CANADA”,”Alberta”,”Alberta”,”Wetaskiwin “,”A743 “,”Registered”,”Immatriculé”,”N”,”2004/06/21″,””,”Edmonton”,”Edmonton”,””,”RAF”