Hi
Now that does give me food for thought:D
After shoreham even with the cheap prices, I would only have cash left for one pastie.
I would hate my excess baggage bill on the return flight..
cheers
Jerry

Hi
On wiki,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft

records the cause of crash as

March 12- An Airflight Avro 689 Tudor V stalls and crashes after the rear cargo hold was overloaded, resulting in a center of gravity exceeding the aft limit; 80 out of the 83 people on board die.

tiz a sad day in my opinion, when any aircraft crashes, no matter how many are killed.

It’s good that we remember all those lost, in whatever causes.

Hopefully we all learn from history.

cheers
Jerry

Hi
That wellington, has it got a ‘ZQ’ code,
If so any chance of the serial number ?
cheers
Jerry

Did the reverse happen, did the Luftwaffe drop fake bombs on Allied decoy sites ?

Hi
I heard the story at a raf re union in the 80’s, mind you there was a lot of beer flowing in the direction of the ex raf.
cheers
Jerry

….. I will talk to our curator and the volunteer that handles our photograpghs and see what I can find out……..

Tom

Hi
Look forward to what you can find.
cheers
Jerry

….. In this large dusty crate ……. :D:diablo:

Hi Jerry
Yes there was. NV999, the third Tempest VI, was sent to Canada for winterisation trials, arriving St John 27 Nov 45. I had always assumed that this was an RAF trial, but the Form 78 says ‘on loan to Canada for 9-12 months’ so maybe it was on RCAF charge?

Anyway, this is where you might need your snow shoes …. some time in 1946 it crashed, date/location not known to me and it does not appear on the F78 or on the accident cards – the former merely saying that permission to SOC was given 10 Dec 46.

Can any of our Canadian friends help? Is there an RCAF record of its loss?

Hi
interesting, maybe the typhoon refered to earlier was confused with this tempest.
The tempest was at one time at RCAF Station Namao, which later became became CFB Edmonton, Alberta.
cheers
Jerry

If you are feeling rich you could try this…

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Blueprints-Me109-Messerschmitt-Bf-109-E-F-G-K-Aircraft_W0QQitemZ290381758106QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item439c19fe9a

Hi
Save your money..
Link sent via pm of ( note) different, but more probably more useful files.
cheers
Jerry