Blue, How about Avro Tudor 8 ? VX195 . powered by 4 x RR Nene ? Civil side to the rescue ? Keith

Taking this thread a little further, and possibly showing my novice status, as my main intrest is post war civil airliners etc. What is historic ? What would you put as a cut off date ? A lot of talk recently of saving a BAC 111, mention earlier in this thread of a 707, Are we talking 50’s, 60’s, 70’s ….
Confused of Norwich. haha.

KenneF, Just looked all thro your archive, excellent, some rare pics from the 60’s. Just my cup of tea ! thanks. Keith.

Hi avion ancien, I joined this supurb forum at the same time as yourself, my main intrest is post war civil aviation, there have been a lot of threads that have sparked my intrest and involvement, that said, I find a lot of satisfaction reading what goes on, and am always amazed at what these people know ! and the depth of that knowledge they have ! These people have helped me recently with things (for others) that I have no knowledge of at all !
I think, maybe, the problem with “our” intrest is the lack of preservation of civil aircraft ! (expect flack for that comment) and the fact that, particuarly WW11 aircraft were built in such large numbers and therefore produced so many more varied subjects for discussion ! Was that a good “sitting on the fence” statement ? We are talking CIVIL here lets hope any replies remain CIVIL ! Keith.

Thanks guy’s, I have a copy of that pic, you have added even more detail, I am researching for a colleague who’s grandfather went down whith her ! he and I are indepted to you once again. Thank you. Keith.

This seems to have stalled ! Compare my pic of 10/12/07 with post No 67 of 25/07/07.

And one for JJ (with those lovely green doors behind) !

SMS88, Yes i take on board what you say re viking, I will try to post a pic I have of a viking of Airwork, which when I zoomed the emblem below the cockpit window looks similar ? Could be, as I said earlier, someone else’s markings ? mmmm ? Keith

Papa Lima, Miles M60 Marathon first flight, 19 May 1946.
Handley Page HPR 1 Marathon first flight 1949 ? even stickypedia doesn’t have a definate date. Keith.