Avion Ancien could probably do this far better than me but basically the french says that he ran out of sky during aerobatics and it took over an hour to get the pilot out who was taken away injured. By the looks of it he was very lucky to be alive at all.
I think I mentioned earlier that Stan Brett who went on to form Rebel Air Museum had a whole series of colour slides of the Beverley taxying across the road and into the museum compound. Stan had a massive colour slide collection documenting the museum from very early days but as both Stan and his son David are both no longer with us the slides may well have been dumped unless anyone has any idea who may have inherited the collection – maybe someone from Rebel Air Museum?
What was the Consul shipped through Manch airport in the 80s? To Singapore?
I think it came from the RAF Museum store and went to Singapore Airlines to restore as one of their first aircraft. It was probably G-AITB or G-AITF W&R shows one at Cardington and one at Henlow in the 80’s.
The owner did say in a magazine article written before he left the US that he would like to display in the UK and he specifically mentioned Shuttleworth. As far as I am concerned a Shuttleworth appearance would be an unmissable event.
Is there a list of planned displays in France yet?
Isn’t there a flying Heron based in Jersey – can’t think of the registration but I am sure I drove past it on the airport road when I visited the island 3 or 4 years ago.
Very glad to hear both survived comparatively unscathed.
The idiot responsible for the pole needs sorting out and quickly. He obviously hasn’t thought things out well either unless he is quite happy at the prospect of a disabled aircraft crashing through his house – don’t think his insurance would pay out once the cause of the accident became known.
Other operators were British United and Cie Air Transport both of which appeared in the Airfix kit. Britiish United reliveried as BUA (British United Airways)in the mid/late 60’s and later as BUAF (British United Air Ferries).
I think Channel Air Bridge also operated freighters and there must be several other overseas schemes as well. I know the Pakistan Air Force had freighters but not sure if they were Mk32’s.
Surprised that no one has posted this one yet
Musee Des Arts et Des Metiers about 2002 and looking very frail. Pity the roof is almost the same colour.
G-LOTI at PFA Rally Cranfield? early 1980’s
Pics are there in my browser starting with the Bl;ack and Yellow Harvestair Aztec. If you click on my username you should be able to access the pictures in the Southend album.
I believe the CASA was at North Weald for quite a long time. After Southend she went to the Whitehall Theatre of War and was then stored (in Norfolk I think). When I worked at Southend one of my regular jobs was to wire brush any loose paint on the CASA and paint over it again. We had to use very big tins of Humbrol as it was all we could get in the correct colours. The Mitchell was also painted with Humbrol and suffered similar problems with paint coming loose. I suppose the paint didn’t offer particularly good protection and that together with a period of several years when one of the museum managers made no provision for any maintenance having banned all the volunteers from the building would probably account for the corrosion
In 2003 I worked in a model shop in Chipping Ongar and met Ray Thomas (son of Skyfame founder Peter Thomas) who was working on the Casa / Heinkel at that time. He said that the spars were pretty poor due to corrosion caused by the salt air at Southend even though the museum was a good way from the sea. He thought that a rebuild to fly wasn’t a realistic option. I was invited to go down to Aces High to see her again but unfortunately I was never able to take up the offer.
Ray said she was going to the USA and it seems to ring a bell that she was listed somewhere as being owned by Paul Allen from Microsoft.
The aircraft belonged to Doug Arnold / Warbirds of Great Britain.
A few years ago I met someone who worked for WOGB at that time and he said that Neil Williams chose the route because he wanted to show his wife the mountain scenery. Unfortunately the weather closed in at what was probably one of the most difficult points in the journey and the rest is history. It was a very sad end for a great pilot and his crew.
If the Spits are in the desert there is a good chance that they may not be visible anyway as the sands do tend to shift around at various times altrnately burying and uncovering whatever is laying around.
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