Percival Mew Gull

Vickers Viscount

Autoland Trident

Convair 340

Caspian Sea Monster

XB-70

MiG 25

Well, I like a bit of variety.

Definitely NOT a DH 108 though!

Bri 😀

Lovely pics SMS. Box brownie did bloody well!

I think the Marathon came well before the Ambassador.

Let’s see some more of your pics mate.

Bri 🙂

Perhaps it was because they were high-altitude bombers. After all, what radar would be useful apart from weather radar?

By the way, most of them did have radar – just a different type called Doppler which was used for navigation. Green Satin at first, then Blue Silk later.

Bri 😎

Slightly ‘off piste’, I know, but the Marx Brothers film ‘A Night In Casablanca’ apparently breached the copyright name of the film ‘Casablanca’, or so the company (MGM?) claimed.

Groucho Marx wrote some very amusing letters to the big film company, saying that he didn’t know you could copyright a city! The bigwigs didn’t get his jokes. That was from the book ‘The Groucho Letters’.

Still off piste, does anyone remember the hilarious skit in Michael Bentine’s TV comedy where a (Triumph) Spitfire chased and ‘shot down’ a Messerschmitt bubble car?

Well, I found these things funny…

Bri 😀

Steve, perhaps you could do something about improving the use of traveller’s cheques in Oz?

On a visit to Q’ld a few years ago, some banks wouldn’t change them and others charged very high prices.

My Aussie relatives thought it was ridiculous and not much good for Oz tourism.

Bri 🙂

That gunsight in the Fouga looks remarkedly like a British Mk 14 gunsight.

Very pretty plane. Be nice to see the instrument panel.

Bri:)

As a little light reading for this post, may I include a memory. Thanks, as you have no choice!

On 2 Sqdn RAAF, back in the 1950s, ‘Nashos’ (national servicemen) used to cadge a ride in our Canberras.

The pilots played on their fears when they were boarding, and would say “WHEN we are going to crash,” (not “IF”!) “you will release and kick out the side door. Then I will kick you in the back so that you don’t hit the engine and get chewed up – right?”

The poor young Nasho would be quite green by this time, and was wishing he had never asked, so sick bags were essential!

Bri :diablo:

PS: Our Canberras had only two crew and two ejection seats.