Just a guess but it could be a fuel tank sump with the water drain from one connection and the fuel line from the other one with filter.

Richard

Was it not the case that lend lease aircraft had to be paid for if they survived the war, thus many were dumped at sea as this could be classified as war damage / lost and written off ?

I think payment was only required if you wanted to keep and operate a lend lease aircraft. Presumably this is what happened with the Harvards and Dakota’s the RAF used postwar.

Richard

I liked the programme, you have to accept it was made to appeal to the masses and not the likes of people who post on here. The air to air was good.
On a general note I do get annoyed at the dumbing down of programmes like this, where the presenter/celebrity takes centre stage and the people who really know what they are talking about are merely dismissed with flipancy.
I thought they skirted round the real reasons for it being stopped from flying any more.

Richard

Many thanks Richard : ) another of life’s little mysteries solved and a still very recognisable bomb dump- I had always assumed that it would not be a million miles from Splasham.
One further question if I may – is the WW2 Crookham Glider Assembly area within that pic ?

rgds baz

Baz
I dont have personal knowledge of the location but googling found the Airfield Information Exchange has a thread http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/showthread.php?1720-Unknown-locations-photographs that shows the Crookham glider assembly site to have been further to the left of shot from where your picture was taken, the site was apparantly incorporated into what became the much expanded Greenham SAC Base when it was rebuilt in the 1950’s in preperation for the B-47’s, I do remember them though.

Richard

Not much to add to what has already been posted

Pleasure Flying Services, based Cramlington Aerodrome.
Owned by Constance Leathart & WL Runciman
Taken over by Cramlington Aircraft Ltd 9.29
All three aircraft sold to Cramlington Aircraft 10.29.

Richard

Topspeed

The C-46 is a design in its own right, bigger, heavier and rarer than the C-47 that starred in ‘ISLAND in the SKY’.

Richard

A J Jackson in Blackburn Aircraft since 1909 says the flaps were ‘Hydraulicaly operated metal-covered camber changing flaps that ran on curved rails inboard of the fabric covered frise-type ailerons’. Which sounds like a description of a Fowler flap to me.

Richard

On the DAHG site the caption, readable when you click on the small image,says its Lancaster JB558. Googling brings up sites stating that it was used on H2s trials http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/album/black-26-white-photos/p6005-avro-lancaster-bmkiii.html

Richard