Tell me i’ve lost it completely BUT!

I seem to remember a silver Valiant at Halton 1967-69. Reg haven’t a clue, and cannot find any reference.

Anyone out there, can you put me out of my misery?

Silver Vulcan and Canberra as well as Comets but I am unaware of any Valiants there.

Richard

Gannet XL500 and all that Propstrike listed.

VHF Supplies on the A4 Great West Road. That takes back a bit. Went out of business in the early 80s when they decided to only sell their World Airline Fleets book and the monthly update that went with it. Out went the kits, radios, other aviation magazines and display models. Probably not the best business plan.

In the late 60’s early 70’s VHF Supplies sold an A4 photocopied sheet listing all the interesting LHR arrivals and departures. I cannot remember if it was a weekly or monthly thing but I would regularly buy it.
Richard

I wonder what the circumstances are regarding that picture. The starboard main leg seems to have folded foreward and rotated but the prop is undamaged. And why does the starboard underwing tank not look right.
Otherwise it looks fine even down to the pilots seat harness being draped over the cockpit edge, as if he has just got out.

Richard

The USAF RB-47’s operated all over to Soviet Union above the ceiling of the MIG-15’s then the MIG-17 arrived which could reach them. Lots on the web about these overflights during which some aircraft were lost.

Richard

Balliol!

KB976 was being prepared for use as a water bomber in Canada with some stripping out being done in preperation, then the plans changed and it was sold and flown to the Strathallan collection in Scotland.
Its now with Kermit Weeks in Florida, in bits awaiting restoration.
As for a Lanc on floats, the biggest around would have been some from a Dakota as desctibed here.
(The Edo Corporation, of College Point, N.Y. designed, and built twin, 1-ton floats, (the largest floats ever built). Each float was 42 feet long, five feet, eight inches wide, and displaced 29,000 pounds of water. The cellular construction of each float had 14 separate water-tight compartments. Each float also had a 325 gallon fuel tank. The floats had fully retractable, hydraulic wheels, and could land on water, snow or land. The float rudders were connected to the air rudder).
They potentially could have been modified to fit the Lancaster Undercarriage attachment points but a fully laden DC3 only weighs about the same as a empty Lancaster, therefore the floats would have been impossibly small.
Seems unlikely unless someone knows differently.

Richard

Seems a shame really that no effort is being made to keep it airworthy, but it just doesnt have the public pull of Concorde, Comet or Vulcan.
Reality is that its current operators have probably run the component lives to the end and now it requires a big financial input.

Richard