Well, I guess if there’s an ID plate in that lot… :diablo:

Adrian

Plus, of course, he was at the other end of the plane, facing backwards, when suddenly everything went pear-shaped around him. It doesn’t necessarily take a lot to create a blank in the memory where a traumatic memory would be.

Adrian

The Sunderland flying boat crash when a member of the Royal family was killed in WW2 – title escapes me now, something about all the crew being accounted for and then the tail gunner came strolling down the hills which gave foundation to some of the Hess theories? Actually, add the Hess arrival as well?

Duke of Kent. Usual Wikipedia caveats apply – if half of it is true, he was quite a chap!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_George,_Duke_of_Kent

Adrian

[QUOTE=mike currill;1284614]Boulton Paul made agricultural machinery QUOTE]

I think Boulton and Paul (as the name on buildings usually is) were making prefabricated farm buildings before they ever started making aircraft – in fact, the expertise in pre-fabrication led to the interest in aircraft.

I cannot remember where I read that, however, so treat with care!

Beaumaris was still empty in summer 2007, though there was a hint of life – I tried to persuade the other half to come in for an explore as the gate was open. She refused (killer seagulls being the main objection, I seem to recall, there being rather a lot nesting there), and the next day the gate was locked again…

Adrian

Yes it’s an Argosy.

Cheers Kev, good to know more about it!

Adrian

I’m pretty sure that it’s an (the? Not sure how many are left…) Armstrong-Whitworth Argosy, aka the Whistling Wheelbarrow, whistling Tit, etc. Presumably the cargo-loading door (nose) is open.

Either that or my eyes need rebushing too…

Adrian

James Herriot (real name Alf Wight) undertook some flying training although I don’t think he went operational- it’s pretty much skipped over.

No, he was discharged on medical grounds according to the biography written after he died. He suffered on and off through his life from an anal fistula (google if you really want to know… but carefully!) and it chose the middle of his flying training to open up again.

Adrian

[QUOTE=low’n’slow;1281474]Thanks John.
Turns out VEF was the same company that made the Minox camera.
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That’ll be why it’s so small and neat, then…:diablo:

I love the pic of the Arado for all sorts of reasons – can you imagine the fuss nowadays if an aircraft was moved like that, for starters? Especially with someone stood on the trailer. And just look at the light in the picture – how big a flashbulb was needed to light up buildings fifty metres away? It must have been like a WW2 photoflash! Then there’s the comedy registration… and the Fordson tractor, Henry even got to Finland it seems.

Seriously, fascinating pics – keep them coming of you can!

Adrian