BUT ET CLUB
Numéro spécial avant tour 1947
http://i.ebayimg.com/07/!Btlc8r!CWk~$(KGrHqMH-D8EvcgVzdDcBL8nLqTE(Q~~_12.JPG
Wieesso – where did you get your detailed information about the T-de-F stages from ? I have a couple of general books but not one with any great detail.
…sorry, took the easy way 😉
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_France_1947
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Bergpreissieger_auf_dem_Col_du_Tourmalet
1947 Tour de France was started 25.06.47 Paris-Lille, 26.06.47 Lille-Brussel, and they climbed the Col de Tourmalet during the 14th stage.
maybe also of some interest
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/236012-corsair-wreck-lough-foyle.html
OH-PPB (on the cover)
http://www.kolumbus.fi/sil/2005/K20053.jpg
…just to start with
above the logo: the Welsh Dragon
under the logo: AIR CAERNARFON
Will they still be there? or were they eventually recovered?
17197, 17238, 39092 – these three aircraft were tied down at Little America (nickname of the airfield at the US base) and abandoned. 1948 the ice pack broke away and drifted off with the aircraft.
I never knew that those Grumman J-2 (OA-12?) biplanes saw service post-war, nice pictures.
USS Edisto carried a Grumman J2F-6 Duck
I can’t find anything about a recovery attempt!
…just to add – on the second photo:
Nose art: Penguin with “Project Highjump”
and “Naval Air Transport (Service)” above the cabin windows
ATC and NATS were later joined to MATS on 1 June 1948
The photos were taken during the “Operation Windmill” early 1948.
Two ships involved: USS Edisto and USS Burton Island.
They both carried a Sikorski HO3S-1 helicopter.
XC-28 is a Sikorski HO3S-1.
http://researchguides.library.syr.edu/content.php?pid=29777&sid=681201
They found at least one Douglas R4-D leftover from the former six of “Operation High Jump”
The serials:
BuNo.12415, 42-23443
BuNo.17101, 42-108803
BuNo.17197, 42-108916 (the second photo shows very probably this one)
BuNo.17237, 43-48055
BuNo.17238, 43-48063
BuNo.39092, 42-100600
“The following year the US Icebreakers ‘Edisto” and Burton Island, spotted the goonies while visiting the Bay of Whales in early February 1948. Snow was cleared away from one of the Douglas Aircraft and its engine started up , but no attempt was made to try and fly it.”
…sorrry, nothing about Podington or Billing…
“CHRISAIR (AVIATION ENTERPRISES) Ltd.
Probably the smallest airline ever to operate into Baginton was Chrisair, the company leased a Dragon G-ADDI, Leopard Moth G-AIYS,Tiger Moth G-AHVU and a Proctor which were based at Sywell and were owned by J.H.Stevens from Borehamwood.
The company operated several charter and executive flights into Baginton during the sixties with this very interesting fleet of aircraft, the Proctor was a random machine selected by the ARB for testing the wooden structure of these aircraft, sadly the wings broke whilst being loaded with sandbags as an early form of stress testing and she was scrapped.
G-AHVU Tiger Moth at Baginton in 1960 whilst on a visit to the air races,…
She was withdrawn by Chrisair during 1961.”
http://www.wonwinglo.scale-models.net/id39.htm
“…Tiger Moth coupe G-AHVU (marked ‘Teeny Weeny airlines’ on the nose) and a Leopard Moth G-AIYS, these aircraft were chartered to a company based at Sywell called ‘Chrisair’ operated by Mr & Mrs C.M. Roberts who held a contract to do pleasure flying for the holiday camp at Phweli in Wales.”
http://www.wonwinglo.scale-models.net/id30.htm
Fleet:
dH.85 Leopard Moth G-AIYS c/n 7089 dd 3.61 sold 11.61
Percival P.44 Proctor 5 G-AHGJ c/n Ae.41 dd .61 wfu 9.63
dH.84 Dragon 2 G-ADDI c/n 6096 dd 11.62 wfu 5.68 ‘Liftmaster’
Percival P.40 Prentice T1 G-AONB PAC-070 ex. VR244 (FX-EZ) dd 2.63 sold 3.64
Auster J/1N Alpha G-AJEB c/n 2325
Cessna 175B Skylark G-ARML c/n 175-56995 lsd .64 ret .64 lsd from private owner
61-62 Luton, 62-63 Ramsgate, 63-68 Sywell
1968 Chrisair stopped flying
G-APOP also served with Channel Airways and by the late 60’s was derelict outside the old Tradair hangar in Channel colours.
Great stuff.
Did I imagine it, or is one of the Salis SE5a replicas red all over, with a second seat installed?