I saw the Wapiti at Palam in 1981. It looked very tatty, and the “engine” seemed to be made of wood. According to Leslie Hunt in “Veteran & Vintage Aircraft” it was ex A Flight, 1 Sqd, and at Kanpur 1 Base Repair Depot for 20 years.
Sorry, I meant G-BSKP.
I will amend my original post too.
Thanks for pointing it out.
Nice pictures! Try scanning them in grey scale rather than colour or black and white. It may give a crisper result
I certainly enjoyed flying in Jetstreams as a passenger. My experience was on Sydney-Canberra commutes in the late 1980s-early 1990s, and the feeders around LAX in the mid 1990s, and also a couple on the LGW to Maastricht run.
I know nothing about their economics, but I would gladly reschedule a flight to get on a Jetstream.
Yes, but it’s not publishable.
In the end I shall not be arriving in the UK until late on the 9th, so can’t make it.
Jim: almost right about the Chipmunk. It belonged to Nottingham UAS when I flew with them in 1960, based at Newton. One night the boys from RCAF Langar, nearby, visited the hangar and this is what we found next day.
I look forward to seeing that photo Jim.
While we are waiting, try to solve this one:
Chipmunk WD345 of the RCAF, or is it …..?
When and where?
Another strange one from Belgium, August 1959: Spitfire XIV on a pole at Beauvechain, marked MN-350 (350 Sqd) and SG-3 under wing, but is really SG-31, ex RN201. Maybe the “1” of the underwing serial had been washed away, but it certainly looked as if the phoney SG-3 had been added after withdrawal from service. Rescued in 1990 it became G-BSKP, and flew as RN201 from 2002. Sold to USA as N201TB.
A few from a trip to Belgium in August 1959:
Middelkerke:
NF11 OO-ARO (EN-18, ND-F, ex WD661); also present: OO-ARP,Q,R,S,W,X
Spitfire IX OO-ARC (SM-39, ex NH188); present were OO-ARA to F (in background is a Harvard – present were OO-GEM, N,P,Q).
OO-ARC became CF-NUS, then to the Ottawa museum as NH188
Grimbergen:
Cessna 170 OO-GAY
Le Zoute:
Goevier OO-SZC (marked OO-SCZ on fin, SABENA under wing!)
Rhönlerche OO-ZUY
I had the pleasure of flying the last two.
Correct. The MA-7 was built at Thun as a prototype for a new fighter for the Swiss Air Force in 1924. It showed a lot of promise and set an altitude record of 9800 m in 1925. But it was found unsuitable as a fighter and in spite of a new engine being fitted, the project was abandoned.
Over to you.
I still have no news from either qattara or Capt Collins since both told me they had no mutual contact. So is some wool being pulled over someone’s eyes?
To stop the LAP thread being further degraded, I’ve launched this one
And look where it’s got to!
That helicopter was worse than mine!
OK, try this one.
Jim; if you have it, select shades of grey, not just black and white.