MLP was one of four bought by Midland air Cargo, the others NVR,PAU and PAV entered service while MLP was sold to Canada.
The only info I have is that PAU and PAV were flown to Lasham for Scrapping PAV was the last in 1974.
I wonder what the date for that was.
I remember these aircraft flying over my home on airway Delta Blue 32 when still in service, the last I saw was PAU on 27 March 1972.

Richard

I cannot find(still looking)the artical written by Neil Williams about flying the Archaeopteryx, he flew it fairly often.
I do remember reading about how it needed some fine tuning to make it airworthy after restoration, which was in June 1971, think the undercarriage was altered to increase the ground angle. It does suffer from poor pitch control during landing and take off.
Believe the new colour scheme of green is thought to be more accurate than the blue it was painted in.
Looking at it now I suddenly realise its so close in layout to modern flex wing microlights, it was just 80 years ahead of its time. Would be a nice formation pair to see flying with a modern relation.

Richard

Well thats nice im,e something interesting, a Stearman G-BRSK or a De registered Comanche G-ARSK.

On 12th December 1936 102 Sqn flying seven HP Heyfords Took off from Aldergrove heading to Finningley, encountered dense fog and icing over England. One a/c made it, Three crashed(one being abandoned when it became uncontrollable) and three made forced landings. Total casualties were 3 killed, one injured.

Richard

OOps just noticed the WW2 bit so ignore this.

NII_VVS
The book PICTORIAL HISTORY OF BOAC AND IMPERIAL AIRWAYS By Kenneth Munson, SBN 7110 0136 7 has a picture of G-ADSV wearing a camouflage paint scheme at Takoradi, West Africa. Picture credited to BOAC.

Richard

John
Not much of a responce so far to your question which is unusual on this forum. And I dont know either.
I looked at various publications and could find nothing, and for that matter I cannot find any runway performance data on similar types such as the Beaufighter(never realised how close they were in weight).
It may be that the figures are so variable due to aircraft weight, runway surface, height above sea level, humidity, the pilots handling ability, the state of the aircraft etc.

Richard