Some of this stuff really ought to be where the public can see it rather than in a locked room.
Good point, is it accessible by people that wish to research the type etc?
Great updates and pics as usual Rich.:)
Looks like Dornier planform, as used on 228/328 etc. Or could it be a Sculpture?
It seems to be just outside Toulouse airfield if that helps anyone here.
Can’t see anything French, just thoroughly British Bristol Freighters and a Miles Aerovan!
Must have required some spares support to take British bikes on a journey like that!
Yes undoubtedly Ark Royal and Hermes, as Firebird says.
Scimitars with the Tigers head motif on the tail are 804 sqn (notice pilots Tiger striped helmet!), 15_ coded Scimitars belong to 803 sqn cross decking from Victorious, Sea Vixen FAW.1s are of 890 sqn with the early red witch motif, Gannet AEW.3s are 849 C flt, and that is a nice Skyraider AEW.1 in the final sunset shot.
It has to between July 1960 and September ’61 with those squadrons being aboard Hermes at that time.
I love that final Gannet shot with the wings folding, looks like two deck hands trying to tease a large lazy beast back to its nest with sticks!
If you mean TonyT, he knows his stuff.
The content of the conversation seems full of holes to me however, like MarkV I wonder if it was for posting.
Excellent joluqa video of XB259 being reassembled on the Army Museum of Army Flying site, taxying & flying, and a look around the flight deck here, http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=103408
Excellent images of some very unique aircraft, thanks for sharing and nice to see the Science Museum getting an airing here:)
The first aircraft having its prop swung looks like the DH.51 that appears a bit later on, it’s a bit confusing as it cuts straight to a Dragon Rapide.
Some of it was filmed at Duxford using some of their airliners, I believe DCWs excellent Dux thread shows various stages of the filming.
I agree with you, an excellent result.
Fantastic shots, probably the best cockpit one I’ve seen of the era.
The first vid has been posted before, discussion about the aircraft etc here, http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=103408
Can’t get enough of this footage though, and joluqua’s stuff is always worth looking at. There is a good RAF Shackleton film that he has worked on and posted up, he seems to find really good and unusual films, edits it really well and adds good music.
I loved that sim, real analogous stuff, there is of course the famous occurrence of someone sticking a fly on the landscape and when the Nimrod crew were ‘flying’ over it they encountered a huge fly in their windscreen!
I found a video the other day of one of these being built, at Bedford I believe.
I own a great video tape (narrated by the late Bob Holness) I bought it from FAA Museum Yeovilton (I must transfer these to DVD someday) It is packed with footage of Vixens, Buccs, and carrier life 60s 70s, and as yet, not on Youtube.
‘The Buccaneers’ & ‘Flying The Ark’ are both available on DVD now.
Phil, I thoroughly recommend that you take a look over at the Canberracrazy forum, there are some extremely good first hand accounts of RAAF Canberras used for the Vietnam conflict.
I always thought that it was established that the collision was caused by vortices/airstream from the XB-70s wing tips affecting the 104, or was that just published assumption that became ‘fact’?
Not often one can say that!
Nice pictuure, you would think that the Radio gear would give the camera a wave!