Happy birthday, Jochen, missed you at LFA (you were there, weren’t you?)
Nx611 “Just Jane” ex G-ASXX
One of 22 sold to the French Aeronavale Air Force as WU-15 and was delivered in June 1952.
Flottilles : 10F, 24F, 25F.
Escadrilles: 9S, 52S, 55S
Donated to the Historic Aircraft Museum, Sydney, Australia.
Became G-ASXX and flown back to England
Became gate guardian at RAF Scampton.
Fully restored to taxiing condition and on public display at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England.
Extract from this web site:
The registration G-ASXX in the (hidden) photo title would belong to NX611 “Just Jane”. Would she have toured Australia at some time in the past? All the stickers on the nose would seem to indicate that.
Don’t forget the mighty Swordfish!
From page 148 of the book, 816 Sqn making a practice rocket attack. They and their fellow squadrons helped to protect the invasion fleet against seaborne attack.
How about if I asked for “the next bus stop, please” in my best Swedish?
“Nästa hållplats, tack”
What a star you are, wannabe_pilot!
I have already printed the bus timetable and your instructions (although white text on white paper is not too legible (joke! I copied the text into Word and marked it, then changed to “Automatic” for the font colour, which gave me black text)).
I’m all set for my next Stansted visit now, many many thanks.
Moggy, even as a non-pilot, I can see the point of your point 2), if you see what I mean!
Mosquito RS712
Here’s one you don’t see very often – RS712 in the EAA museum at Oshkosh (photographed in July 2003).
Great! All we need now is for you to add the the bus timetable for the number 510 on your web site, for those of us who travel out from Stansted and arrive in good time for the Ryanair check-in (wouldn’t want to miss that)! For example myself, departing Stansted for Gothenburg at 12:00 on 11 July, I will come by train from Cambridge first thing in the morning and will probably have a couple of hours to spare!
Assuming I have any memory left in my camera after attending Waddington and Legends on behalf of the Historic Forum!
With reference to posts #73 and #74, here is my photo, which shows a little more, including the bomb bay area . . .
I can’t resist putting up a few of my own recent pictures from the Newark Air Museum – I don’t get to the UK often enough!
Lee, do you know that the Museum has a “Virtual Tour” on CD-ROM? A copy of the 2002 issue is in front of me now!
Also don’t forget to check for more information via the Search facility on this Forum!
This would be the “before” picture then . . .
Varsity at Newark
Would it have been about this big, then?
Would that be this Canberra?