Don’t think it’s that one – sounds like a new build – picture on link below.
Doesn’t look exactly like a faithful reproduction….
Don’t think it’s that one – sounds like a new build – picture on link below.
Doesn’t look exactly like a faithful reproduction….
And an almost identical shot of Elvington’s…
http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=38297
Compare and contrast!
And an almost identical shot of Elvington’s…
http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=38297
Compare and contrast!
Just in passing – 823 must have had some cockpit work done since the photos earlier in the thread were taken: the pilot’s panels are looking much better than that now.
She really is fantastically complete – right down to the nav plots from her last flight.
On at least one occasion when I visited NEAM I’m sure she had at least some electrical power on… must have been early 90’s: Nav lights, beacon, I think maybe cockpit lights too?
Spock –
There was an HMS Valliant and several HMS Vulcans!
One of the Vulcans was remaned HMS Birkenhead… the sinking of which gave rise to the famous “Birkenhead drill”
Not specifically aviation related (though it does involve a roll of film at 27,00ft or so…)
Many people will know the story of Mallory and Irvine – the British mountaineers who disappeared somewhere near the summit of Everest in 1924. There have been any number of searches for them – and the camera they were supposedly carrying. Kodak experts have apparently said that given the extreme cold and low oxygen, any exposures it contains may still be preserved: and that’s after 85 years…
Equally famously, the balloonist Salomon August Andrée vanished in the Arctic in 1897. Negatives found 30-odd years later produced all but perfect photographs.
So in theory I suppose there could still be viable film in a wreck that’s crashed and frozen, if not burned….
There’s some here….
http://gsirius.bookfoto.com/index.php?ac=book&gr=0&id=136064.
Not sure what the guy in cycling shorts is doing there though….
Looks like Bob Prothero was in charge for the anti det runs….
What a truly incredible life.
“I hope all the trees in France bear such beautiful fruit this year”
You simply couldn’t make it up, could you?
More details on the “new suspect” ….
http://abcnews.go.com/US/db-cooper-exclusive-niece-provide-key-evidence/story?id=14219052
BTW from memory N467US was scrapped in Memphis in 1996
Here’s the Telegraph Story that it was based on: quite a nice piece on the whole Cooper legend generally….
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8667855/The-40-year-mystery-of-Americas-greatest-skyjacking.html
I believe it was also the 7th most bombed town in WW2, had the last recorded outbreak of cholera in Britain and was also home to one of the UK’s most profilic female mass-murderers.
Fascinating facts which don’t seem to feature in the council’s publicity material. Shame.
Anon is right about the anti-German sentiment; we noticed it strongly, even just a couple of years ago. The local guides took great delight in pointing out the spot where the SOE and local partisans kidnapped the German Military Commandant.
Some of the Minoan stuff really is worth seeing… but sad to say the most memorable aviation-related experience may well be fighting your way through Heraklion airport