The serial you quote comes in a batch of cancelled Avro 504K’s and does not appear as a single entry in the Air Brit “J” register.

John

There appears to be a place named Beaufort in all of those states plus the Carolinas so is it possible that contributions from those towns bought the aircraft and those guys are from the said towns, My guess.

John

Creaking Door has it. The Bristol Belvedere it is. Tested at Boscombe Down in October 1962.
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Here’s another tease along the same lines.
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To put Scouse out of his misery, the Lancaster (R5660 was used for the trials) was given a clearance by the AFEE to drop paratroops in December 1942. Strange though its seems the Manchester (L7392) was given a similar clearance later the same month based partly on the results of the Lancaster’s trials.

First thought Bristol 170 Freighter though the door is wrong more like a Bombay.

John

Sea Fury

John

Hi
Im trying to put some slides together for my Air rec group. So does anyone have any good silhouettes or pictures that i can black out.

Especially different marks of spitfire.

Also does anyone have pointers as its such a wide and varied subject its hard to cover everything for competitions.

Also i noticed in the book bomber boys (which is a great read) they have technical drawings of WWZ bombers like the ones in aeroplane. Does anyone have a copy of these A4 or bigger they could send or email etc?

As they are good to have for reference

Cheers
Matt

Obtain a copy of the Observers Book of Aircraft or the old Ian Allen books and make slides of the silhouettes or as was suggested a from a facsimile copy of the Penguin book for wartime stuff. There are loads around. The modern method would be to scan them into a laptop and use an electronic projector such as a Proxima or Acer, which is what I now use for talks etc.

John

I remember the incident well, (and recall the great sadness at the time) because I was airborne with Bill Harrison ( the Fairey specialist author) in Jodel, Mike Tango out of Hucknall) heading for Barton airshow where I believe the Varsity was heading and we were told to avoid Marchington. Also if I recall the a/c was based at Syerston.

Kind regards

John