As Air-Britain have announced that the latest edition of their Douglas DC-3 book will be available shortly perhaps this is a good time to show a few “Dakota” pics. To start the ball rolling here are half a dozen.

1 C-47B-30DK VH-RRA
2 C-47A-25-DL G-AGHJ
3 C-47A-10-DK VR-SCP
4 C-47A-5-DK F-OAGZ
5 DC-3S Super Dakota N540S
6 C-47B-25-DK KN291

Glyn

Ah, out of these I recognise RCAF KN291 as being taken at Odiham during Farnborough Air Show week September 1968.

There is one (was one at least 7 years ago, oh how time flies) in poor condition on the dump at RAF West Freugh. The Battalion I was serving in at the time did an airborne assault on exercise, a tactical landing at West Freugh in Hercules’s “Brace, Brace, Brace”!

I wonder if it’s still there?

SoG

Yes, it’s still there! This is XN817, the last Argosy to fly in UK, which was operated by A&AEE Boscombe Dowbn. it crash-landed there with an undercarriage problem, I believe, and was found not worth repairing.

I have many photos of various Jetstreams at Prestwick but they don’t really fit into the historic forum.I will scan some tomorrow and put them in the photo section.

Tell Cosford Museum that?? :rolleyes:

Fantastic! Many thanks for letting us see these! Would be interesting to compare with the ours at Elvington? From ‘0’ Halifaxes, we now have ‘2’, so maybe there’s hope for a Stirling or Whitley yet? :rolleyes:

Not many Auster IIIs left here in UK. Here are my shots of G-ATAX at Sywell in July 76 in a red scheme and the same machine the following year in camouflage. In ’78 it was sold……to Australia as VH-KRL. Wonder what she looks like now?

Yes it’s painted with the colors of the HAF Aerobatic Team, called Hellenic Flame
It acted between 1958 and 1964, consisting of initial five, later seven, Canadair Sabre Mk. 2’s, based at Tanagra (where the Airshow took place). During their existence, they became quite famous for their displays not only within Greece, but also in France, West Germany, Italy and Turkey.

Hope that flame burn again 🙂

Please can you translate the lettering on the side of the “Hellenic Flame” Sabre? The original team never had that on them! Thanks

MAGIC MAGIC MAGIC

Thanks for that, that brings back many memories. I think we got there even earlier than 0815 as I seem to remember that we wree asked by the security police to return behind the public barrier on the way back from having virtually walked all over the airfield and logged everything on the base.

Those were the days.

I vividly recall a group of us walking towards the operational compound full of 48th TFW F-100D Super Sabres, with no barrier between us and them armed with notebooks and cameras. A rather portly black armed guard came running across shouting “You can’t take photographs here”, to which a friend retorted, “Yes I can, I’ve got a camera”, followed by a barrage of camera shutters fired off in unison!

Here is another shot from the 1971 Cottesmore air show, showing a CFS Whirlwind HAR.10 doing an SAR demo. Note that this is not just ‘any old Whirlwind’ however, as it is XN127 which was a former Queen’s Flight HCC.8 before conversion with a Gnome engine.