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 🙂

I go for Hudson, too….curved belly

Guppy?

Ahem…I thought it was a Conroy Skymonster conversion from the CL-44 🙂

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?

3 shots from Baron Air Charters Beech Baron, 1970

Approaching Southend from Stansted , summer 1970, apologies for quality

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

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?

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