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  • in reply to: General Discussion #370692
    Papa Lima
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    It’s here, Alex, (10 pages – too much too scan!) but my photocopier went in for repair a couple of days ago; when it comes back you are welcome to a copy . . . please PM me with your address if you are interested.

    in reply to: back issue of Air Enthusiast #1941978
    Papa Lima
    Participant

    It’s here, Alex, (10 pages – too much too scan!) but my photocopier went in for repair a couple of days ago; when it comes back you are welcome to a copy . . . please PM me with your address if you are interested.

    in reply to: Request for those going to OW tomorrow. #1356072
    Papa Lima
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    Air Transport Auxiliary Association (2001)
    E Viles, 40 Goldcrest Road, Chipping Sodbury, Bristol, BS17 6XG, ENGLAND
    Tel +44 01454 319175

    Tried phoning these people?

    in reply to: Request for those going to OW tomorrow. #1356079
    Papa Lima
    Participant

    Have you tried contacting this web site?
    http://www.airtransportaux.org/
    All you need really is a printout of the badge – drawing shouldn’t really be necessary.
    Good luck, anyway – if I can find a copy of the badge I’ll let you know.

    in reply to: sea vixen #1356235
    Papa Lima
    Participant

    Alex, the pleasure is all mine!
    Could the answer to your second question perhaps be the Scimitar? What exactly do you mean by “size”? Length plus width perhaps, wings unfolded?

    in reply to: More Photos From The Great War (1916/17) #1356236
    Papa Lima
    Participant

    Could the nearest aircraft in the second picture (with the tents) be a Rumpler C.1 two-seater? Somehow the fin looks wrong for an AEG.

    in reply to: sea vixen #1356243
    Papa Lima
    Participant

    22 ft 3 in (6.78 m)
    Source: Jane’s AWA 1966-67

    in reply to: Lancaster jet testbed #1356485
    Papa Lima
    Participant

    Lancasters used for turbojet testing

    Having trawled through my little library and othe sources, here is my current “definitive” list of Lancasters that were used to test turbojets, either in nacelles or in the tail:

    June 29, 1943 at Baginton, Lancaster BT308 (first prototype Lancaster; standard Manchester airframe with new wing centre sections and 4 engines, Metrovick F.2/1 installed in tail; the 3rd Metrovick turbojet but the first to fly. SOC at RAE Farnborough May 30, 1944.
    ? 1945 at ?, Lancaster LL735, replacement for BT308, Metrovick Beryl F.2/4 in rear fuselage.
    September 28, 1945 (April 1943?) at ?, Lancaster? ND784/G, Armstrong Siddeley Motors ASX in bomb bay. Later had a Mamba installed in the nose.
    August 8, 14 or 16, 1946 at Hucknall, Lancastrian VH742, 2 x RR Nene 1 in outboard nacelles; originally to be Lancaster B Mk I PD179 but completed as C Mk I and re-serialled. Later had a RR Tay engine installed but did not fly with it as the Tay was cancelled in October 1949, aircraft dismantled.
    January 17, 1947 at Hucknall, Lancastrian VH737, 2 x RR Nene 1 in outboard nacelles, to be Lancaster B Mk I PD167 but completed as C Mk I and re-serialled. Mainly used for deicing trials with spray grid ahead of port side Nene intake.
    July 24, 1947 at Hatfield, Lancastrian VM703/R, 2 x DH Ghost in outboard nacelles.
    August 15, 1948 at ?, Lancastrian VM732, 2 x RR Avon RA.2 in outboard nacelles; allocated G-AGPK but believed never to have carried this registration. Later had RA.3 engines installed.
    ? 1948 at ?, Lancastrian VL970, 2 x RR Avon RA.2 in outboard nacelles; successively fitted with RA.3s, RA.7s, RA.9s and RA.14s. Crashed due to assymmetric power on take-off on March 29, 1955.
    ? 1949 at ?, Lancaster LL735, Metrovick F.2/4 in bomb bay.
    ? 1950 at ?, Canada, Lancaster Mk 10-O FM209, 2 x Avro Orenda in outer nacelles.
    June 27, 1951 at Linköping, Sweden, Lancaster RA801 converted and in RswAF as 80001, RM4 Dovern under fuselage; later had DH Ghost with afterburner installed. Crashed May 8, 1956.
    May or November 1952 at Bitteswell, Lancaster SW342, Armstrong Siddeley Motors Viper 3 in tail; had previously flown with Mamba turboprop in nose and Adder in tail (date unknown). Dismantled August 1956.

    Any corrections, additions or other information is very welcome (to me at least!)

    in reply to: General Discussion #371328
    Papa Lima
    Participant

    Well said, Moggy!

    in reply to: more censorship? #1942254
    Papa Lima
    Participant

    Well said, Moggy!

    in reply to: More from the Far East – photos #1356969
    Papa Lima
    Participant

    Nice to see the old UPS-1 “sweatbox” – around the same date I was responsible for the one at Hamala camp, Bahrain, even with 2 air conditioners running full blast it was the same temperature inside as outside: 140F! Of course it was valve technology – no transistors or integrated circuits in those days.
    Never thought I would see one of those again!

    in reply to: 7 stuck in Russian mini-sub on Pacific sea floor #2087536
    Papa Lima
    Participant

    Just read on the Göteborg Posten (Swedish newspaper) web site that a line has been attached and the sub has been dragged a kilometre towards shallower water – the aim is to get it to a depth where divers can reach it.

    in reply to: Lancaster jet testbed #1357414
    Papa Lima
    Participant

    My list of Lancaster/Lancastrian jet test bed first flights

    Lancaster with Metrovick F.2 June 29, 1943
    Lancastrian with Nene (1) August 14, 1946
    Lancastrian with Nene (2) January 17, 1947
    Lancastrian with Ghost July 24, 1947
    Lancastrian C.2 with Avon (1) August 15, 1948
    Lancastrian with Avon (2) 1948
    Lancaster with Beryl 1948
    Lincoln with Derwent October 1950
    Lancaster with Dovern (Sweden) May 3, 1951
    Lancaster with Viper November 1952

    And that doesn’t include the several Dart, Mamba and other turboprop engines!
    If anyone can supply details of the serial numbers and the missing dates I would be most grateful.

    in reply to: Lancaster jet testbed #1357443
    Papa Lima
    Participant

    Wellington turbojet test beds

    W.2B in the tail of Wellington II W5389/G in November 1942; had Mk IV wings and Merlin 62 engines.
    Wellington II W5518 in similar configuration; these two were used to test at least 15 different jet engines in their tails, with a total of 512 hours in 366 separate fights, all in 1944 and 1945.
    (Source Vicker/Putnams p. 363)
    However this really has nothing to do with the original subject of this thread!

    in reply to: NATO Hawk Crash…. #2607646
    Papa Lima
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    Canadian Hawk

    Here is a photo I took of a sister aircraft, CT155201 (it was CT155202 that crashed) in August 2004. This was at the same location, Moose Jaw.

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