Interesting article – thanks for the link. Pity the Catalina won’t be flying again but great to see it restored. That’s a really nice b&w photo over Sydney Harbour Bridge too.

The green Rapide G-AEML is the same as EC-AAY c/n 6337 (until around 2010 G-AEML than change colors and registration in EC-AAY)

Thanks for the info. The restoration back into the green scheme again had confused me! Doesn’t take much to do that sometimes 🙂
Another great set of photos too.

Brilliant photos! – looks an amazing event.

Am a bit puzzled by the Rapide – when I google it the results show a Spanish registered one EC-AAY (with G-AEML in small letters) and also the one in the photo above but the dates seem to overlap. Are these 2 separate aircraft and, if so which is the real G-AEML?

Mr Noble must have visited Strathallan in May/ June 1976 – the Shackleton (VP293) and the Avenger (Dutch Navy 045/ G-BTBM) both arrived that month – the Shackleton flying in and the Avenger arriving by sea/road. If I remember correctly they didn’t remain for long in the positions in which they were photographed, probably a matter of a few weeks at most. The Texan (G-AZJD) left Strathallan in the August of the same year.

Don’t find the colour cast a problem myself – it’s just really nice to see old photos like these, thanks 🙂

I did wonder if the Hornet was one of the “aircraft still on the secret list” mentioned at the end of the quote in my previous post.

Photographed the fuselage mould at the DH museum less than 2 weeks back –

There’s also a very nice print on here –

http://boroughphotos.org/walthamforest/production-of-mosquito-planes/

Found this on https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/bitstream/2134/9471/6/Technology%20Doc%20latest.pdf

To give an idea of the range of work undertaken, the 1945 press release from furniture
manufacturers, F. Wrighton and Co. of Walthamstow, London explained:
During the period the thousand work-people at the factories have manufactured well
over one million wood and metal components sub-assemblies and main assemblies
for aircraft of all types including Mosquito fuselages, Mosquito wings, Hamilcar
cockpits complete with controls, Proctor centre sections, Oxford empennages,
Albemarle main planes, Stirling coupes, Spitfire and Seafire Elevators, Horsa glider
ailerons, Mosquito jettison tanks, as well as being entrusted with the prototype
manufacture of aircraft still on the secret list.(Cabinet Maker, 16.06.1945)

Taken from an article in the local paper in 1976 ( with apologies for any eyestrain from reading this but it was the best I could do!)

Does anyone know if it is still in RAF colours?