Wouldn’t it just be easier to give up smoking TT, than to have to keep finding exhibits you could use for a sneaky ciggie?? :diablo:

The Napier Lion engine was used on a number of aeroplane types that operated in Egypt and would have had propellers produced at the Aboukir depot, which was a major RAF base.

The Fairey IIIF was probably the most numerous type and they were operated from bases in Egypt including Aboukir.

The Lion engine also powered Vickers Virginia heavy bombers and Vickers Vernon and Victoria transport aircraft which were operational in the Middle East until the middle of the 1930s.

I’m sure there are many better qualified on this forum to give you more detail, but at least I hope this is a start!

There isn’t an embargo as such. …..As Legends proves every year ….but:

Any former military aeroplane is subject to investigation as a potential ‘weapon of war’, involving all sorts of agencies from the FAA, to Homeland Security and Department of Defense.

If its over 60 years old, it also becomes at ‘potential national treasure’ and it’s leaving the USA may have to be approved by their heritage authorities.

It shows the worth of having a good, on the ball, shipping agent!!

Last week, l_garey posted a pretty comprehensive list of aeroplanes at Bicester in the early 1960s on the thread I started regarding 71MU.
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=78785

I extracted the following from his lists:

06 November 1961 235 Eagle 3 RAFGSA235 “74” (w/n 1136)
13 May 1962 G-APEW EoN 403 RAFGSA 306 (=EON/4/001, BGA278)
17 April 1961 144 EoN 460 Red. EON/S/002. 144 on fin
10 December 1961 G-ARTE EoN 460/1B Silver
17 April 1961 220 Grunau Baby RAFGSA
17 April 1961 159 Grunau Baby RAFGSA
17 April 1961 281 Grunau Baby II RAFGSA
06 November 1961 D-3222 Ka6 “175” (-RAFGSA322)
17 April 1961 B-1 Kranich II w/no 635. Damaged
17 April 1961 206 Olympia 1 “26” RAFGSA206. Silver.
17 April 1961 228 Olympia 2B “112” RAFGSA
17 April 1961 246 Olympia 2B “117” RAFGSA. Silver
23 May 1969 G-AVHY RF4
17 April 1961 234 Skylark 3B RAFGSA234. BGA844, wn 1134
17 April 1961 212 T21B RAFGSA. (presumably cn588 WB925 RAFGSA212 BGA2964)
17 April 1961 238 T21B RAFGSA238. BGA846, w/no 1131
13 May 1962 242 T21B
17 April 1961 XN152 T21B Sedburgh TX1 Wreck. “AIR CADETS”

There are also some fine pictures of the RAFGSA contingent on the Air Britain photo website http://www.abpic.co.uk

L&S, yes some real corkers on the current 71 MU RAF Bicester thread – which you started!:confused:

Yes they’re interesting pics. But they just show the Beverleys, sort of standing around!

I’d be fascinated to discover just how they dismantled the beasts en-masse.

I suspect, none too subtly!!

The building of Paul Jamieson’s six-wheeler was chronicled at the time in ‘Motor’ magazine. I seem to remember about 1974.

I also recollect seeing the other Meteor-engined 1930s style Rolls-Royce special at a Vintage Sports Car Club race meeting at Silverstone a few years ago….in the spectator’s car park! 😮