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.
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.
Air Transport Auxiliary Association (2001)
E Viles, 40 Goldcrest Road, Chipping Sodbury, Bristol, BS17 6XG, ENGLAND
Tel +44 01454 319175
Tried phoning these people?
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.
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?
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.
22 ft 3 in (6.78 m)
Source: Jane’s AWA 1966-67
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!)
Well said, Moggy!
Well said, Moggy!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.