An end to the Marathon

[QUOTE= All except G-AMHT were scrapped in February 1962, with the latter following its brethren to the same fate not many months later. I suspect that it was the last surviving Marathon in the UK. In the world, too? Maybe, but the legend of the Japanese Marathon hasn’t surfaced for a while!

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While on crashguard(Jet Provost) at Wymeswold in I think 1964 there was a Marathon in the hangar belonging to possibly Airwork. It had been modified for crossing the Atlantic to Canada for missionary work! The fuselage was full of extra fuel tanks for the trip which never took place because there was no way of topping up the engine oil. Was this the last Marathon in the world.:eek:

It feels dated because 1940 was a long time ago.:rolleyes:

I was born on this day in 1940 and I dont feel dated, well maybe a little bit.;)

China to build two new super sized coal power stations

As the title says China having built its quota of windmill power producers will build something it knows will produce power constantly. The worlds overpopulation will finish us off before climate change anyway.Ray:D

What an impressive sound!

Hi everybody,

If the weather is half decent I am going to take the Lion to a local steam and vintage event at Mill Meece pumping station, North Staffordshire.

I hope to run but that is down to the organiser.

Andy

Thanks for the info. Andy it was well worth the wait after missing the first demo. Closely examined the Lion and the mobile engine frame it was mounted on. Maybe it will be at Legends:eek:
The second demo was well attended but plenty of room to see the starting procedure I watched from the single exhaust side and after a few swings she roared into life, not as noisy as a Hercules(bigger) and apart from a few backfires from the opposite side she is a sweet running girl and well behaved apart from a slight dribble from a carb. on start up and a coolant leak on shut down. I hope to see this Lion roaring again. Well done ANDY.

No flush on a Bev.

Yes upper level and boom (only one!) was a seated passenger / paratroop area for 36 bods, the ladder is going into the upper para drop exit.

The above mentioned exit was also used for lowering the two elsan toilets for emptying. The aircraft toilets were automatically locked when the door was open for obvious reasons although some poor erk fell through after climbing the internal ladder from the lower deck!:eek:

Defiant in Moray Firth

3 earlier threads on this forum with comments from Ross and he has repeated it again here, there are no records of a Defiant in Loch Ness. So can people stop repeating rumours which have no foundation in fact.

Ross did not mention Loch Ness in his answer only Moray Firth! Read before you write!

According to ‘Combat Aircraft of World War 2’ the Catalina could carry according to mission requirement = four depthcharges, two torpedoes or four 1,000 lb ( 454 kg ) bombs. The armament was altered on later models but no info. provided.

I haven’t seen the show but from google earth you can see the entrances to 2 underground hangars near the main body of aircraft – I wonder whats in them?

Paul

Spitfires in crates? No not the Russian built Il-14 (NATO ‘CRATE’) !