Hilson Bi-Mono Slipwing Clark Y (upper) RAF-34 (lower)
http://alexander.voivoditch.free.fr/airplane_airfoils.doc

http://aviation-ancienne.forumactif.com/quizz-aeronautiques-f19/quizz-sur-les-avions-t3182-60.htm
‘Scale 6m10 – long.4m40 – 1 engine DH Gipsy Six of 205hp’
… and scroll halfway down (two pics)

http://svammelsurium.blogg.se/images/2009/hilson-bi-mono_29752576.jpg

So does anyone know if this found a home in the end? Didnt sell on EBay anyway…….

Jon

‘This item has ended.’
Highest bid was only 525 £ (they expected 1500 £)

From the book: Winged Shell by Hugh Scanlan
HC-AAM, Grumman Goose G.21A, cn 1048, 1942-50

From the book: Winged Shell by Hugh Scanlan

The Shell Company of Ecuador Ltd.
late 1930s
“Then a site was identified for a rough airstrip 750yards long on the banks of the Pastaza River, at a village called Mera.”
“Shell Mera, for example, must have been an awful place, the best of a bad lot. There was one way in, and one way out, through the pass to the east. If the weather clamped, which it did in minutes half-a-dozen times everey day, there was barely room to circle between the mountains for height.”
“The take-over by Airwork at the beginning of 1947 was prefaced by a deplorable accident involving one of the Grummans.”

HC-SBB Grumman Goose
HC-SBL
HC-SBV
HC-SBX
HC-SBY
HC-SBR Douglas DC3
HC-SBS
HC-SBM Bristol 170 MkI
HC-SBN
HC-SBU Bristol 170 MkII
HC-SBD Ford Trimotor
HC-SBC
HC-SBI
HC-SBJ
HC-SBK
HC-SBQ

Martin

please look for PM

Link to many pics of High Post
http://www.atlantikwall.co.uk/atlantikwall/atlantikwall_html/high_post_htm/south_of_england.htm

ET-T-35
http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac5/ROW%20Africa/ET-T-35.html

I have seen a photo of a WW! a/c shed similar to a bessonneau but with a slightly more ‘pointed’ roof.
Apparently the ultimate canvas Hangar was the ‘Hervieu’
but cannot find a pic yet 🙁

cheers baz

Hervieu tents
‘…It should be remarked that the Hervieu tents, although
manufactured in all sizes up to 55 ft. in width, and suitable
for housing virtually every known type of aeroplane,…’
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1913/1913%20-%200379.html
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1913/1913%20-%200380.html

Martin