Nice photo (b&w only) of a Lebanese aircraft here – https://histoiredelarmeelibanaise.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/1949-prentice-de-larmee-de-lair-libanaise-2/
Nice bit of video on Youtube. Don’t know where unfortunately but it seems to be filming of part of a Bulldog Drummond story “Some Girls Do” which is also on Youtube
Hi dale,
Congrats to the team on your new acquisition and on the continued progress being made at the museum. The Camel looked to be coming along nicely last time we visited. Will look forward to seeing the Anson in due course 🙂
Hi Walter,
Full photograph on the Alamy website where it states the Blenheim is T1947 and it is a long gun tray beneath the nose. The nose poking into the front of your screengrab belongs to a lovely Percival Q6 –
Lovely news – a fine addition to the Collection 🙂
Scottish? Chap on the right reminds me a bit of John Sword of S.M.T/ Midland & Scottish Air Ferries.
Would like to add our thanks too. So good to have an event of this kind in Scotland. Looks like the weather wasn’t so good on Sunday but Saturday was glorious (it was probably our summer!) We were even treated to a couple of fly-bys by Apaches currently on exercise up here. Nice to meet some other forum members too 🙂
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Thanks, Consul. Hopefully she’s still around and got better days ahead. Iirc I read somewhere that the remains of G-AHIC had also gone to the USA.
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wonderful picture, thanks for sharing… what became of the others?
G-AGWE went to the States and is, I think, still stored somewhere in Florida
G-AWRS is at Nelsam
G-APHV is at East Fortune in its RAF markings of VM360
G-AYWA went to Belgium in 2007
G-AHIC donated its centre section to the rebuild of G-VROE
That is a lovely picture – those were the first historic aircraft I ever saw. I remember it was a murky day in early ’73 and they were quite a ghostly sight through the mist!
The For Sale notice from Flight in 1972 –
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I particularly liked the Hawk Major, but what does the crane in the background belong on?
Hi Graham, it’s a little crane of 30cwts safe working load (possibly used for small engine changes, etc)
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Nice photos, Derek 🙂 It’s a great little museum there. On our last visit the layout of the smaller exhibits had had a total re-vamp and it was looking very neat and well-organised. The Camel replica had been stripped back to basics and was under restoration to make it look more authentic. I’m sure it’ll emerge from the workshop looking amazing – the BE2 is testimony to the skills of the volunteers there. Any mention of when the Anson is due to arrive?
As scotavia says, it was very sad for Banff Flying Club after the work they put in. The tower was looking really good. In 1976 Neil Williams flew Mosquito RS712 north from Strathallan to the event at which Max Aitken declared the Club officially open.
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I thoroughly enjoyed it and thought it generally well presented. It would have been nice to have had more historical content but it was titled RAF At 100 not RAF -The Past 100 Years. Hopefully that episode will be along soon 🙂
Ok. Will do 🙂