It’s worth remembering that a squadron of LANCASTERS were flown under the Brittania Bridge and Menai Bridge connecting Anglesey to the mainland in preperation for a low level raid on Germany.

Exact details escape me but Duisberg (as a target), 1942, and a Sqn Ldr Middleton or Nettleton come to mind.

Now THAT must have been worth seeing!

Couldn’t do it nowadays – since the Brittania Bridge was rebuilt, the new frames apparently produce dangerous eddies (like it was safe before)…

Adrian

Oooh, Arm Waver beat me, looks like the two of us have spotted the easiest ones!

Adrian (grinning!)

In no order at all, because my mind isn’t working like that…

The flying wing is an Armstrong Whitworth AW52 (Or was it GAL? Anyway, I’m sure it was still an AW52, whoever got the name).

2nd one down… well, everyone else thinks Beriev, and so do I. Be12?

4th one… Dunno, but obviously someone let a randy Westland Wyvern loose in a field of Fairey Barracudas! What an ‘orrible looking thing!

The two below the flying wing… An Etrich Taube? and the Douglas X3 Stilletto?

The WW1 quadraplane has cropped up here before – but I still don’t know it! Is the 1st one a Maurice Farman Shorthorn with cropped wings for ground handling training?

And the last one – Martin Mauler?

Adrian

I hate to put this thread back towards where it started but….

Where on earth did they find the Mark 1 nose? Or is (was) it the car they found about 1990 built from a Mk1 Blenhein nose?

Adrian

Oh come on! Surely someone else must think the Sea Hawk is just so pretty? After all, I can’t see any qualifications being given as to WHY they have to be top… So here’s two I think pretty, one just plain odd, one being the first jet fighter I remembers eeing – even if it was Wethersfield’s gate guard, and the first prize in the “What WERE they thinking?” contest.

Sea Hawk
Hunter
Saro SRA 1
North American F100
The Nimrod someone hung Sidewinders on in 1982. Now that’s a great (big) fighter!

Yes, the tractor with the Vildebeeste is indeed a Fordson ‘N’.

It looks like an Industrial model from the small wheels with rubber tyres, the cab and the downswept exhaust. It also has an air cleaner mounted on a 90-degree pipe on the top of the carburettor, unlike the agricultural tractors – the Duxford tractor has one just like this.

I’ve also seen photos of cabless tractors on agricultural tyres (not unlike modern tractor tyres, and the RAF also used Fordsons modified with half-tracks by Roadless. There is a piccy of one of those on the following site, if you find the link to “cool Roadless tractor” or somesuch:

http://www.oldengine.org/members/arnie/yank2001/yank2.htm

Is that a fuel bowser behind the Fordson? It’s got a stationary engine (Petter? LIster?) to drive something on it, and LOTS of asbestos lagging on the exhaust pipe – hot exhausts on a petrol bowser wouldn’t be fun… Given that tractor power-take-offs before the war were generally a pulley on the side of the transmission, it would make sense for the bowser to have an engine of it’s own to drive a pump. Any offers?

Can you tell that I just like old machinery generally?

Adrian

Diana Rigg and her perfect undercarriage…

😀 No picture sadly, but an episode of The Avengers was filmed at Bovingdon, and in one scene Emma Peel is seen looking round the undercarriage of what surely can only be a Mosquito…

No mention of the ‘plane, but more on the episode at:

http://theavengers.tv/forever/peel1-9.htm

I also remember seeing on erman TV in 1994 a fairly dodgy american TV series called “Uncle Buck”, UB being a fat bloke with a beard that would have made WG Grace envious. Frankly it didn’t leave much impression, except a scene with him stood in the middle of a runway while someone taxis a P-51 (unmarked, I think) towards him, tail-up, “shooting” at him with lines of explosions going down the runway…

Presumably all faked, ‘cos the Mustang still had it’s prop and was the right way up! Might have made more impression had it had subtitles, or if I understood German…

Adrian