No photo,but of interest is that the pilot F/O Crombie was the first successful ejection through a Canberra canopy at 10,000 feet and 500 kts. Makes the eye’s water thinking about it !
The big problem with all aircraft collections is that corrosion will take it’s toll. How safe are the undercarriages,and corroded wing mount’s will be very difficult to remove,should the aircraft be moved in the future. The only way is to get aircraft under cover. Just look at the work at Duxford required on the Varsity,Shackleton and Victor despite working partie’s over the years they were parked outside.
Google for “Flight cutaways “and then click on Agricultural aircraft there is an auster agricola . Also loads more there, worth putting in your favorites.
“climbed over the fence” reading the Bruntingthorpe post ,guilty as charged m’laud . I am not an urban explorer and i did try to find someone to ask permission. My wife describes me as just a “grumpy old man” these days.
Years ago went on a booze run to St .Omer. On the way back stopped at the blockhouse at Watten. It was closed and empty, but i climbed over the fence and walked around the exterior only(elf and safety !) respecting the property. It is eerie and i noticed no birds singing. To see the concrete re-inforcing rods sticking out of the sides was strange after the allied bombing. It is well worth seeing and scary to think this was to be used to fire rockets at England,too close for comfort.
No 1409 Met Flight sent Mosquitoes on weather flights over the enemy territory to get data back not only for the RAF but the American daylight bombing raids. Based at Wyton at the end of the war they continued at Lyneham under Transport Command.
There are two photographs of airborne lifeboat No 804 on Page 68 of Postwar Military Aircraft No 3 Avro Shackleton by John Chartres. Guild Publishing 1985.
Also another good photo of WL796 leaving Woodford for the SBAC show on page 19 of The First Forty Years The Avro Shackleton by Harry Holmes 1989.
The Avro test pilot at Farnborough was Johnny Baker and the company photographer was Paul Cullerne.
There was a Canberra T.19 WH714 which suffered brake failure whilst taxiing at Binbrook 19.6.68 and ran away down the Binbrook hill. It travelled quite a distance before stopping and was classed as a write-off. I don’t think the T.11/17/19 had the updated brakes.
I have V8702 as crashing at Braunston, Rutland. I can find Airspeed Oxford L9691 of 11FTS Shawbury, crashed in force landing at Minden Drive,Leicester on 25.6.41. Unable to find this address on Google,and the area near the school at Avebury Avenue looks like being redeveloped over the years. Need local help on tracing Minden drive ?
My father was on B.2’s at RAF Manby/Strubby with the College of Air Warfare in the sixties and i can remember him saying he had some sticky moments on runways full of standing water. Of course everyone remembers the Ambassador accident at Munich but that was slush.
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