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  • in reply to: Spotters of the 1960's… #956460
    l.garey
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    So, let’s have a few more:

    Wymeswold 30/5/1955

    Dragon Rapide G-AIUL
    Bristol 170 RCAF9697 (twice)
    Chipmunk WG471
    Dart Kitten G-AMJP
    Dakota IV G-ANTD

    l.garey
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    That’s not a problem. You can either post via something like Photobucket, with a size about 600 pixels wide, or follow the Manage Attachments tab in the Additional Options box just below the Submit Rreply window. That will give you a Thumbnail.

    in reply to: Spotters of the 1960's… #956837
    l.garey
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    It reminds me when UK air shows were great without being ruined by H&S,the CAA and the ‘bean counters’, when we had an all-British aviation industry, when the sun shone, when there was no need for bag searches and stringent security, when international air travel was too expensive for immigrants to flood the country and…basically when life in Britain was at its best! I was also there and loved it all! 😉 Thanks for sharing.

    I echo (most of) your sentiments. We could get easy access to airfields and take a few photos, see excellent (free) airshows, and simply look up to see things like Lincolns, Washingtons, Mosquitos, Meteors, Vampires, Ansons and Oxfords, early Canberras and Valiants … I must stop!

    l.garey
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    Welcome skytrain, and congratulations. I didn’t think it was that easy!
    You even got that it was the Grandjean L-1, rather than just the L. The story is that René Grandjean, a local Lausanne hero and very earlier pioneer of Swiss aviation, built his “L” in 1912, which was bought by the Swiss Air Force in 1914. It had a local Oerlikon engine which soon blew up (broken crankshaft) so they replaced it with a Gnôme rotary, and it became the L-1. It worked well, but the L-1 suffered an in-flight failure of the wings in 1915, killing the pilot and injuring the observer.
    Over to you.

    l.garey
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    Thanks Wout. Here’s a slightly older one.

    l.garey
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    A bit prettier than my Hungarian helicopter. NSA Genie.

    l.garey
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    Give that man a prize. There is another picture of it at the end of this thread:

    http://www.hcmodelling.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=312&start=120

    This was Hungary’s first helicopter, I believe, designed by Samu, Orosz and Hatházi (SOH) in the mid-1950s. It had fabric-covered rotor blades: at least that is what I read, although the picture I cite above does not seem to suggest that! It flew briefly in the early 1960s before being damaged and not pursued.

    Wot’s next?

    Should be “Wout’s next”

    in reply to: Spotters of the 1960's… #958209
    l.garey
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    Northolt, 16 July 1959

    Valetta VX574 RAF Malta, Anson T21 WB459, Pembroke XL954
    Nord 1101 No 74
    Same, plus C-131D 55-291 (looks like a 2 star general’s flag behind cockpit (?)
    NF12 WS686 on fire dump

    Same day I saw numerous Met Comm Sqd Ansons, Devons and Chipmunks, plus a number of overseas military visitors (USAF C-47, C-54; RCAF C-45 and C-47; Italian C-119; Indian Devon)

    l.garey
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    If you mean did it fly, I found a reference to a “very brief” flight test programme in the early 1960s.

    in reply to: Spotters of the 1960's… #958773
    l.garey
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    On 17 July 1959 I flew in Valetta VW197 from Blackbushe to Ypenburg. Here are a few photos I took that day.

    Valetta VW197 before leaving
    Viscount G-APTB and nose of R5D3 56521 from inside the Valetta
    Viking G-AHPL
    Dutch F-84Fs at Ypenburg
    Dutch C-47B ZU-17
    56521 from inside the Valetta

    l.garey
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    Nul points to you.
    Note that the crew seem to have C of G problems in that 3 people (including the pilot?) are on the nose wheel, one is on the tail skid, while a fifth is washing it down.

    l.garey
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    What’s all this diatribe? I must admit I wouldn’t have known anything about any sort of Bartel if I had not come across it in a Polish site, triggered by some recent “polished” aircraft in our sister “and now for something new” site, which I find quite entertaining from time to time.

    You want something Swiss? I could have put up a Gripen if I had wanted to be skating on thin political ice. But that’s not especially historic (although it might qualify by the time the Swiss Air Force gets one – if ever).

    However, I recently came across this which was new to me and not particularly pretty. Any ideas, or will someone get it in microseconds?

    l.garey
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    I doubt it , avion. More like Bartel BM2

    in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #960787
    l.garey
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    Andy: nothing from qattara. I shall contact the embassy when Gaza has been quiet for a few more days

    l.garey
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    Correct. Over to you, Wout.

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