I got a blade from a turbine of a Pratt & Whitney JT8D-1 (Boeing 727-100)
Own it still after 40 years!
Rumor goes it is/was ex German Air Force 54+14 P66/1005
http://www.flugzeugforum.de/forum/showthread.php?8830-Spontanies-auf-Tour-Technikmuseum-Sinsheim/page13
There is nothing written about the whereabouts in F-40 (1993) http://www.scribd.com/doc/44104267/-Mk54-From-www-jgokey-com
Rumor goes it is/was ex German Air Force 54+14 P66/1005
http://www.flugzeugforum.de/forum/showthread.php?8830-Spontanies-auf-Tour-Technikmuseum-Sinsheim/page13
There is nothing written about the whereabouts in F-40 (1993) http://www.scribd.com/doc/44104267/-Mk54-From-www-jgokey-com
Lovely detail it’s perfect, and for my next question… what colour is it most likely to be, white?
“Se pintó el yugo y las flechas (coloquialmente conocido como cangrejo) en color blanco sobre los círculos negros del fuselaje.”
(They painted the yoke and arrows (colloquially known as crab) in white on black circles of the fuselage.)
http://www.manupedia.com.es/manupedia_g000000.pdf
..bit more clearly
http://www.aviationcorner.net/public/photos/1/5/avc_00179415.jpg
and even more
http://www.manupedia.com.es/manupedia_i0006db.jpg
[QUOTE=Pondskater;1864490]There is another book:
A Short History: A history of Short Bros Aircraft Activities in Kent 1908-1964. by J M Preston 1978.
Quite short 44 pages A4 format.
The section on floats is little more than a paragraph explaining how a decision in 1924 to build their own test tank lead to floats for various companies – and some Schneider Trophy racers.
There is a 3 pages Flight article, March 11, 1926
“DURALUMIN CONSTRUCTION ON ORIGINAL LINES
Some Impressions of a Visit to the Works of Short Brothers”
describing in some detail the work on floats and the test tank is shown in a photo.
Thanks chaps.
Is this right, or their interpretation of DSG or EDSG?
I’m stumped!
Found this, but maybe not a proper answer…
“No. 202 Squadron, Aldergrove, have recently shed their drabgrey finish for the new Coastal Command blue, plus white lettering and “cheat lines” as shown on this page.“
FLIGHT, 20 July 1956, p.119
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
TG565 without radar radome
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1090711/
and
TG565 air-to-air
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1951/1951%20-%201390.html?search=Hastings
and
a ‘Maritime Hastings’
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1951/1951%20-%200615.html?search=Hastings
Maybe you know this article ‘On the track of the weather’ already
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1952/1952%20-%202968.html
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1952/1952%20-%202969.html
Two pictures inside the cabin of a Met Hastings
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1961/1961%20-%200457.html?search=Hastings
All the Short Brothers production archives photos for many aircraft have been transfered from Bombardier aerospace to the public records office of Northern Ireland.They are currently being catalogued but will be available for public viewing before too long.In the long term they are aiming to have them `on-line`.
Thanks for the info, good to hear –
“All the Short Brothers production archives photos for many aircraft…” – reading this carefully, the question remains:
where are the documents and photos of the float production archived?
There is the Putnams book by C.H. Barnes but it does not have a seperate section on it’s float production.
John
Thanks John!
Are there any other books on the Short Brothers,
beside the two books by Michael Donne
‘Pioneers of the skies’
‘Flying into the future’ ?
Tom, do you know this CAHS article
“Memories of Blatchford Field”
http://www.cahs.com/Journal79d.htm
Have you already seen this?
2nd Air Disarmament Wing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thewspics/2783685183/
http://fb.fold3.com/image/#37223050
http://lostimagesofww2.com/photos/machines/he111.php
No 8401 Air Disarmament Wing (scroll down till the end)
http://adl-luftfahrthistorik.de/dok/Henschel_Hs_128.pdf
Maybe these two photos allow to determine the dimensions of the Short Brothers’ floats by comparison with the known dimensions of the aircraft, especially the first one…
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=5558&distinct_entry=true