Remembrance Day, Duxford – 9th Nov 08

From the Duxford Web Site

Entry to the Museum is free for all on Sunday 9 November

Timetable of Events

10.00 Museum opens
Access to BBC’s Ninety Years of Remembrance website,
(AirSpace, all day)
Arts & Crafts Activities, AirSpace
A Soldier’s Life Doing National Service!, AirSpace (all day)
Rationing & Gas Masks, Hangar Four (all day)
Cambridge Film Trust, Hangar Four (all day)
History Horse, outside Land Warfare Hall (all day)
Researching Your Family History, AirSpace (all day)

10.30 Complimentary guided tour of AirSpace (meet in the foyer)

11.00 Two Minute Silence
Costumed Characters, Hangar Four
A Soldier’s Life During the Second World War,
(Land Warfare Hall)

11.10 They’ll Never Believe Me –
(Performance in the Marshall Auditorium, AirSpace)

12.00 Spitfire Display – airfield
Complimentary tour of Land Warfare Hall (meet in foyer)

12.15 Band & Drums of the Royal Anglian Regiment
(Hangar Base)

12.30 A Service for Remembrance Sunday
(Hangar Base)

13.30 BBC’s Stories of War, Hangar Four
They’ll Never Believe Me –
(Performance in the Marshall Auditorium, AirSpace)

14.00 Complimentary tour of Land Warfare Hall (meet in foyer)

14.45 They’ll Never Believe Me –
(Performance in the Marshall Auditorium, AirSpace)

16.00 Museum closes

Weather permitting, I shall be there.

Brian

Brian, I noticed you are doing a scale drawing. Will the drawing be for sale? Please let me know.:)

I’m looking at getting them published in one of the model magazines.

Brian

From the TVOC web site

Urgent Announcement

Due to a brake unservicability problem XH558 will not be returning to Bruntingthorpe this weekend.

It will be 2 – 3 weeks before a replacement brake is available and the aircraft will remain at Farnborough during these weeks .

At present it is still planned to hold the welcome home day on Sunday for those who wish to show their continued support and celebrate the end of a first year of flying.

A fuller statement will be made later today

Brian

This by any chance?

Pic via Daveotu on AIX

Err, no. The military version of the Mk1 was just a Mk1, twin engined, but able to carry bombs.

The Mk11 was externally pretty much the same as the Mk1 apart from the deeper tail boom. The Mk11 has a toilet now in the tail boom where as the Mk1 had it at the front of the passenger cabin, under the cockpit fairing, for the height.

Brian

Joglo

A potted history:-

The Scottish Aircraft and Engineering Co Ltd was formed to build a licence version of of the Burnelli UB-14, known as the ‘British Burnelli’ under the heading of ‘Clyde Aircraft’ and the aircraft given the name of ‘Clyde Clipper’, and was to be fitted with RR Kestrel engines instead of Pratt & Witneys. It only got as far as a wooden mock up before the company went bust.

Cunliffe-Owen was to have used one of these ‘Clyde Clippers’ in the New-York/Paris air race of August 1937, which didn’t take place.

With the collapse of Scottish Aircraft, Cunliffe-Owen then obtained a Licence to build a European version of the Burnelli UB-14 to be known as the Cunliffe-Owen OA Mk1 powered by 2 Bristol Perseus engines.

Although retaining the basic shape of the UB-14, the Clyde Clipper and the OA Mk1 were two completely different aircraft. One was to be built by Scottish Aircraft and the other was built by Cunliffe-Owen. The tail boom of the Clyde was the same as the UB-14 but the tail of the OA Mk1 was different. There was also to be a slightly larger OA Mk11 and a bomber version of the OA MK1.

Hope that is of some help

Brian