American Overseas Airlines, must be 1949 or early 1950 as they were all transferred to Pan Am in Sept 1950 so only saw less than a years use with AOA.

Richard

Julie

For a picture of 4197 look here, its the third one down.

http://www.airforce.forces.gc.ca/v2/equip/hst/tigermoth-eng.asp

Richard

The vendor seems to be having problems with the principle of ‘rate of climb’ ?

Perhaps his house is suffering subsidence, although at the rate shown it must have fallen down a mine shaft.
Richard

Kiteflyer
It does look Clerget to me, they were 120mm bore with 172mm stroke and a steel barrell. The two spark plugs close to each other is obviously a feature although the Bentley BR1 had the same bore and spark plug arrangement but the barrel was aluminium with a steel liner.

kenjohan
The ABC Dragonfly was a radial with spark plugs on opposite sides of the bore.

Richard

Yes I accept that an airline would dead leg an aircraft if it were going to somewhere not in its route structure for maintenance, but you would never ever send an aircraft off down route knowing planned base maintenance was due before it was scheduled back to base. Which is what AF suggested they were doing.
The check cycles are flying hour, flight cycle, landings or calendar life controlled so its not difficult to plan an input at the right time.
The situation I can think of when an aircraft had to be brought home empty was when it had a defect, temporary repair for example or ferried home with an engine shut down, that was outside the dispatch manual limits therefore precluding the carriage of passengers.

Richard

by the way was the 1-11 475 series the GTI of the series, in terms of short fuselage and large engines?

Not really a GTi but it did have the 500 srs wing and small fuselage with short/rough airfield operation in mind. It had larger main wheels that did not fit in the undercarriage bay, solved with bulged main gear doors, then big area’s of the fuselage and flaps was covered on a protective layer of glass fibre. One I was involved with was G-AZUK which had lived in Peru, that had a large dent in the wing leading edge where it had hit a Llama, and the air con ducts were full of stones and dirt.

Richard

It really makes me realise how lucky we are in the UK, in that very same line up of airworthy Hind variant/Gladiator/Tutor can still be seen at Old Warden, 80 years on. Amazing.

Happy Christmas everyone.

Richard

Just had a Tristar low and slow go past me in mid Hampshire on a North Westerly heading. The air is so clear I watched it for ages without any change in its heading. It makes a change from the usual fare of Chinooks and Lynx.

Richard