Pity Turkey never operated the Cranberry ( Canberra nickname to some )
Try / search the Fighter Control Forum – there’s a few pictures there
http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/search.php?keywords=HFB-320
Could simply be ‘sent for scrapping 1958’, but languished several more years before being disposed of
Norwich airport has just had a very comprehensive beat up by a Spitfire – good show !
Just checked – MH434 🙂
Yes – at 100mph ! Didn’t realise they were going to give her that much rein
Except perhaps by RB396
Where did they test fly these ? The factory was very close to the current Norwich airport, but I believe at the time Mousehold Heath was Norwich Aerodrome.
Thanks Tony but they are all later versions – specifically looking for sonar station / winch info
I assume the three at Flixton came via this route ?
Well I dug the book out, but am I allowed to post the pic ?
Book is actually British Service Helicopters by R Gardner & R Longstaff and the picture is Whirlwind HAS9 ‘589’ towing a 21 ft yacht aground off Portsmouth
Somewhere in the loft I’ve a book called British ( military? ) Helicopters and I know there a photo in that of a Whirlwind towing a yacht
Just the USAF ones ?
Only just got round to this on I-player. What’s the history behind the P39 landing on ? UK or US ?
Reminds me of an accumulator pressure skin gauge – they only need a thin feed pipe
Was it really a year ago ? Latest from the local paper this morning. Interesting to see that AAIB still have the wreckage, and the comments on ‘further damage’