Jeepman
Fantastic. We really are lucky to have the technology we have today that allows us to see such things like so easily. Thanks for finding them.
Richard

Re pogno’s post:
In my post #7 above, I mentioned my flight to Gibraltar in Met 1 TG566. I certainly recorded it as a Met 1, but the fact that it was used for personnel transport (eg my flight in 1958) and that it is quoted as a C1 in the accident report of 1962 http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1962.htm
suggests that it may indeed never have become a Met 1. If so, I should update my logbook!
Anyone have any clues?

Laurence
As I said I can confirm TG566 was a Met 1, I did find some good pictures of it coded ‘D’ lying on its belly surrounded by foam and with the fire crew in attendance at the time of its accident, but cannot find then again. Apparantly the fuselage was twisted so it was scrapped.

Richard

I have tried recently to work out the identity of the MET1 Hastings, but from pictures its not easy as the registrations are often invisible on the grey fuselages, but from that research I think the two here are.
TG623 with the white fin which made the final ‘Bismuth’ flight in 1964 and ended up at the Manston fire school in 1968, by then with a dark grey fin.
The other is TG565 with the weather radar radome(was this the only one with a radome?) and coded ‘H’ which went to Catterick for disposal in 1966.
If anyone else has MET1 pictures I would love to see them.

Richard

It looks like a Lockheed 18 Lodestar to me.

Richard

Hi again, been looking around for the other parts and found some alloy pipe with brackets that looks to be from a plane, it is stamped SAC with the “A” being larger than the S and the C.
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SAC could be for Southern Aircraft Components they were at Hemel Hempstead and certainly made matal fittings for Mosquito’s and possibly other types as well.

Richard

Hawk 75 or (More likely?) Tomahawk – hard to tell with no engine.

I think its a Allison P-40 as the firewall on the Hawk was further foreward on the radial engined aircraft.
Lovely archive which perhaps goes a small way towards showing the nightmare of trying to maintain and operate aircraft in that situation with all the dust and sand let alone the heat, flies and lack of water. It must have been hell.

Richard

It seems to me to have been unfair to solely blame the Polish pilots for this, the decision by Captain Page to use a different route was a mojor factor which put them potentially in danger of being shot down by enemy aircraft, and then his approach from a different direction contributed to the Poles thinking it was a hostile aircraft.

Richard

I cannot add much to the suggestions already made, other than they do look a tool for two men to lift something.
In my past life the organisation I worked for had someting called the crash kit which in fact it was really a recovery kit. It was intended to be used when an aircraft had burst all its tyres or over-run the runway or belly landed or a combination of these. The kit contained specialist lifting gear like air bags, short jacks, winches and tools. These bars could be something to do with lifting/moving that sort of equipment.

Richard