Form 78

With a little bit of patience, I have always found this service very helpful, & efficient, you need to be able to understand what some of the abbreviations stand for though, some of the original hand writing also can need a lot of working out, in most cases only one form for each A/C

Dustyone

Have a look at The Nostalgia Forum on this link:

http://forums.autosport.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=95864

There’s a picture of the Vega Gull with a racing number – did Mike hawthorn ever enter an air race?. That forum reached the same conclusion as this as to its fate.

(If the link doesn’t work type “Autosport Nostalgia Forum” into Google and then look for the thread)

***** Thanks for the link to the pic. RRW.
Dustyone

Rolling WW11 bombers

[B]Plt/Off.John Jordan (Late owner of Stearman G-AROY, & famous breakfast food producer) deliberately rolled an RAF Wellington whilst flying alongside the Lancaster from which he was photgraphed, I have a copy of the pic. whilst flying upside down which he personally sent me some years ago.— if I had a scanner I would ‘post it’ , but I’m not really into those things!!!

He was a great aviator who delighted trying to put some ‘zip’ into the RAF flying manuals, & from time to time found himselt called in front of ‘those in charge’. —-& he lived to ‘a ripe old age’

Dustyone{B]

VH-AHY

Hi Ross, I would love to see the pics. of the remains of other Proctors Please *** you have my e-mail address
Les

other

Further to the history of my Proctor

Les has told me the following
“,— it was an early one on F.Hills & sons contract, H 9 denotes the ninth product on their books, Hills made 25 Mk 1 —-100 Mk11s — 437 Mk111s —& 250 Mk 1Vs.

H.1. became R7484 in theRAF > G-AHMU civil —- exported to NZ as ZK-AJY in July 1946.
Proctor maiden flight was carried out on 8th Oct 1939.”

Ken passed on the following
“> Percival P.28 Proctor I
> C/n H.9 G-AIEB
> 1941 Built by F. Hills & Son Ltd., Trafford Park, Manchester as
> R7493 on Contract No. B5153/39, 210hp D.H. Gipsy Queen 2 engine
> Used by No.2 Signals School and Bristol Wireless Flight
> 17.6.44 Hendon local, F/O Read, first Metropolitan Communications
> Squadron (M.C.S.) op
> 1.10.45 St Mawgan-Hendon, last M.C.S. logged op
> 4.9.46 Registered G-AIEB to Field Aircraft Services Ltd.
> 5.9.46 Struck off Charge “Sold”
> 28.11.46 CofA No.8441 issued
> c11.46 Registered to W/Cdr R.L. Bowes
> 9.50 W.S. Shackleton Ltd.
> 10.50 Wiltshire School of Flying Ltd., Thruxton, CofA now No. A.1650
> c12.50 W.S. Shackleton Ltd., Thruxton
> 8.51 Entered in abandoned “Daily Express” race for W/Cdr R.H. McIntosh
> 22.9.51 “Daily Express” South Coast Air Race, Shoreham, 4th at 158mph,
> No.80, McIntosh
> 24.1.52 U.K. marks cancelled
> 10.12.52 Became VH-AHY(2) (not VH-AVW, B.C.R.N. 22.3.52)
> later to Atlas Auto Auctions Pty Ltd.
> William Patterson, Gooloogong, NSW
> 17.11.56 10.27 local, struck bales of hay on take-off at Mount
> Gambier, SA, badly damaged, pilot Nicholls (+ ?) unhurt
> 19.5.64 W.f.u., stored
> later Barker Motors, Cowra, NSW
> 8.71 Cowra Auto Museum, displayed minus wings
> by 5.75 Fuselage abandoned near Cowra
> 1977 Sold to Lindsay Campbell, Coffs Harnour, NSW
> 1984 Sold to Ross Stenhouse, Brisbane, Q, being rebuilt”

So as you can see from this thread I have gone from not knowing very much at all to knowing quite a lot thanks to those that are helping me. I have found this amazing and hope that the information stream continues. I have some photos of the remains of other proctors in Australia. If anyone is interested I can find and scan them and post them on the forum.

regards
Ross

A380

Great to see two great engineering projects pictured together. The 380 is large, but that Aus. bridge sure is a big chunk of steel

Dustyone (in the UK)