Hard aircraft to find!

Hi Schneiderman, have checked through my books pertaining to the period in question. Sorry no sight of the Prevost Schneider 1914 entry and very little about Deperdussins aircraft, this would be about the time Deperdussin was imprisoned for embezzlement and Bleriot took over the company which became the famous ‘SPAD’. The reference books were ‘Jane’s Historical Aircraft from 1902 to 1916’ a facsimile reprint from ‘Jane’s All The World
Aircraft 1917′. ‘THE FLYING BOOK’ 1918. THE AVIATION WORLD WHO’S WHO.:(

Try a RN view on the event!

I am reading ‘ARMED ACTION’ by James Newton at the present. He was an armed Lynx pilot. John Nichol describes it as ” A thrilling account of the blood, sweat and fear of battle”. I am half way through at the moment and it certainly gives a different view of the war.

Neptune air tanker replacement!

[ATTACH]186188[/ATTACH][ATTACH]186186[/ATTACH] Just found this on google. BAe 146 fits the bill! This 146/ 200, tanker 40 belongs to Neptune Aviation. It has a drop speed of 138 mph at 150 feet, cruises at 380 mph and can carry 3000 USG. Turnround 8 minutes

The clue is in the crown1

In the photo below, 15 Sqdn. Mildenhall 1944, is that not the badge on the upper arm of the Sergeant on the left ? If this is so then, I think your initial image is upside down …. aa …. ?? not a problem !

Keith.

There is a Flight Sergeant at each end of the line up! We called them ‘Chiefy’ in the sixties.:D

The Beverley was definitely not long range. An ex-RAF guy told me that they could carry one boy scout for 500 miles or 500 boy scouts for one mile!

Whilst serving at RAF Nicosia 60-62 at TASF (Transit Aircraft Servicing Flight) we had a board displaying future arrivals. One ‘Bev’ took eleven days to reach us! Just slightly faster than by sea.:eek: They had to night stop at Orange Southern France then Malta followed by El Adem Libya before we got them and they always seemed to have a mag drop on at least one engine so they could have a nice time in the night clubs of Nicosia.
When preparing the Bev for dropping the pallets mentioned the rear doors had to come off, and deflectors fitted to the fuselage so lifting equipment had to be available.

Non computer flight instruments?

The BBC programme last night proved the saying ‘putting all your eggs in one basket’ to be true. Could the fitting of some vital flight instruments in the cockpit i.e not computerised, have helped in this terrible situation?