Here is a photo of it.
Here is all I have in my personal database. “JAWA” is “Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft”.
First flight: February 24, 1949
Finland
Single-seat amphibian
Sources:
Text: JAWA 51/52 p. 114c
Illn: JAWA 51/52 p. 114c Eklund TE-1
prototype OH-TEA
25-28 hp Poinsard flat-twin piston engine
Designer: T. Eklund
Poinsard engine obsolete, crankcase failed, subsequently fitted with 40 hp Continental A40-5 4-cyl. horizontally-opposed air-cooled engine.
I second that, James!
You can see from the photo I posted that the Guppy was a rebuilt Stratocruiser (although I suppose not everyone here is old enough to remember those majestic aircraft!)
Several of the rebuilds were made.
Buccaneer nose
Sorry, I haven’t looked so closely at a Buccaneer nose before, as I now see from the picture I took of the one at East Midlands, it is “grafted” on and some “padding” had to be added to make it fit properly!
My point (excuse the pun!) about the Buccaneer nose is that it’s not straight!
I am sure that the author(s) of the articles and the editor would be only too pleased to receive feedback with corrections.
As an author and translator myself, I certainly am!
Please write to the magazine!
The Buccaneer appears to have a broken nose – has it been in a fight?
Super Guppy
Don’t forget that all the Guppies and Super Guppies were based on Boeing aircraft . . .
About normal for Stansted!
Type 80 in Sweden
After a little more searching – this I am almost certain is a Type 80, we had one close to Aberporth and it stirs my memory – although this again is a photograph from Sweden.
Now we’re right back to Bawdsey, Buchan, etc.
Swedish search radar
Here is a picture from the same book, showing three of the Swedish search radars.
It’s a very long time since I saw a Type 80, but I don’t think that’s what these are. They are probably Ericsson contraptions, but someone here on this Forum probably knows.
Incidentally I apologise for hijacking this thread and wandering off into Bloodhound land, but at least this post takes us back into the realm of Bawdsey.
David, the people who run that web site are always very grateful for information to keep it up to date – I do my bit by visiting as many museums as possible and checking against their lists as well as providing photographs. I think it is a remarkable resource that deserves wider appreciation and help.
It is ideal for foreign visitors such as myself.
By the way, didn’t our paths cross at Newark Air Museum in January?
Incidentally, you can always check current UK museum contents here:
http://www.museum-explorer.org.uk/show.php?page=museum_content&c=30&m=3&y=4&t=2
(and see a few of my pictures too!)
Try this.