I hope you resolve what your mystery fuselage at Heston was…I’m stumped…I was a spotter in the period 1954-1961 but don’t recall anything else …I used to help a Job’s Dairy milkman deliver to Orchard Avenue in that period, and lived about 1/4 mile away in Meadow Waye 🙂
Interesting also is the fact that the guards were Canadians… and the writer of this account thought the pilot was Canadian? Coincidence, or confusion maybe?
FinallyThanks!!
Colin
Gaston being a Texan with a French name, I wondered originally if there was a Louisiana connection…but maybe he was from a Canadian family?…..Mick
I go for Hudson, too….curved belly
List of Civilian Mosquitos
By chance Air-Britain have just uploaded a very thorough publicly accessible pdf file on civil Mosquitos by Derek King at….
http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/dh98%20mosquito.pdf ( correction courtesy ajdawson, thanks)
Guppy?
Ahem…I thought it was a Conroy Skymonster conversion from the CL-44 🙂
BB-152
Couple of period shots have turned up on the Deutsche Bundesarchiv
Altering the original question somewhat…What were the fall-back plans to defeat Germany should Operation Overlord run into severe difficulties? I believe that there were plans to re-equip B-24 squadrons in the UK with the B-29,which proved unnecessary.( only one B-29, a YB-29A The Hobo Queen, ever passed through WWII England in early 1944 enroute to the CBI with no attempt to conceal it , though it filed flight plans as a B-17)…have the documents been released relating to the planning for the use of B-29s in Europe?
The link gives the story(The First B-29 in England) of the Hobo Queen’s visit to WWII England and mentions 1942 plans to base B-29s in Northern Ireland. Plainly Project Manhattan would have been at a totally different level of planning and security
http://www.rafwatton.info/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=S7i%2B60gxfv0%3D&tabid=90&mid=417
3 shots from Baron Air Charters Beech Baron, 1970
Approaching Southend from Stansted , summer 1970, apologies for quality
G-AEZB G-AEHJ
G-AEZB was a Gordon Dove owner J K Flower/Denham from26Jun37 damaged beyond repair Tilbury 9Sep37 so photo possibly in 1937
G-AEHJ was a Heston Phoenix…apparently a company demonstrator for Heston Aircraft Co damaged beyond repair early WWII
longshot: Is that a Venom tucked in the buildings just behind that round pool?
A Vanguard too, don’t recall many of them…. And the open air “Museum” Aaah
A Lanc, Sea Hawk and is that a Sea Fury airframe at the front in photo 2 with 826 on the fuselage? What became of them? Did they get into the Museum?
Air Holdings , parent company? of BAF were involved in the financing of Tri-Star sales and took back Air Canada Vanguards as part of the deal, hence their appearance at Southend
More SEN ca.1971
Carvairs starting to be replaced by passenger only types in the early 70s
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=&airlinesearch=&countrysearch=&specialsearch=&daterange=&keywords=mick+west+sen&range=&sort_order=photo_id+desc&page_limit=30&thumbnails=
The aircraft in the second photo is the Heston Type 1 Phoenix ll and the photo would have been taken between 1936 and 1939.
Any idea who the blokes are in front of the Phoenix?
Moormanair
It was PH-MOA and crashed (non-fatally) at Southend I think….you can pick up on more related photos on abpic and airliners.net from the bars under my photos.The views of the museum aircraft from the landing Baron Air Charters Baron were about July/August 1970
B-29s in the UK
The link gives the story(The First B-29 in England) of the Hobo Queen’s visit to WWII England and mentions 1942 plans to base B-29s in Northern Ireland. Plainly Project Manhattan would have been at a totally different level of planning and security
http://www.rafwatton.info/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=S7i%2B60gxfv0%3D&tabid=90&mid=417
Plus the second B-29 to visit the UK at Bovingdon Oct45 attached
plus LIFE photo essay on B-29 crews detachment in Lincolnshire 1948
http://images.google.com/images?q=aircorps+1948&q=source%3Alife