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October 26, 2008 at 6:04 pm in reply to: Sheila Scott Piper Aztec #1163678

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Sheila Scott

She raced in the UK, too….link to MYTH TOO crossing the line in the Daily Express Race at Biggin Hill 1975

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Piper-PA-24-260-Comanche/1005826/M/

October 25, 2008 at 11:50 pm in reply to: Concorde: Five years since the end. #486468

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Concorde’s end….a dissenting viewpoint

I just noticed this recent webpage about the decision to finish Concorde services

http://www.concorde-spirit-tours.com/concorde.htm

October 24, 2008 at 7:41 pm in reply to: Concorde: Five years since the end. #486699

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Concorde….early days

The G-BSST departing LHR after its first official visit in 1972 ( it had ‘dropped in’ after a Farnborough show once before this)….and the first service departure (for Bahrein) 21 Jan 1976

less ‘jaggy ‘ versions on
http://www.abpic.co.uk/results.php?q=m+west+concorde&fields=all&sort=latest&limit=10

a big scan of the first service on
http://www.airliners.net/photo/British-Airways/Aerospatiale-BAC-Concorde-102/0782379/L/

and F-WTSB which didn’t go into service (at Paris Air Show 1975)
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Air-France/Aerospatiale-BAC-Concorde-100/0903160/L/

October 22, 2008 at 11:55 pm in reply to: Less Common Post-1939 Transport Aircraft #1166827

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Burnelli types

The Cunliffe Owen OA-1 flown to the Free French in Bangui Central Africa by Jim Mollison in June 1941* (scanned from the L.A.M edition of the defunct ICARE magazine).(strictly a pre 1939 type?)…and the Canadian Car and Foundry assembled CBY-3 at Cartierville(later Canadair’s plant) in 1945 scanned from the excellent Pickler/Milberry Canadair history

*route Kemble-Portreath-Gibraltar-Malta-Cairo-Wadi Haifa-Khartoum-El Obeid-El Fasher-Geneina-Fort Archambault-Bangui from Jim Mollison, The Flying scotsman by David Luff

October 22, 2008 at 11:49 pm in reply to: The Burnelli saga. #1166839

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Burnelli series

The Cunliffe Owen OA-1 flown out to the Free French via Gibraltar, Malta ,Cairo, Khartoum to Bangui Central Africa (for De Gaulle) by Jim Mollison in June 1941…scanned from the ICARE magazine L.A.M article, and the Canadian Vickers/Canadair assembled CBY-3 at Cartierville 1945 scanned from the excellent Canadair history. Pickler/Milberry

As well as the lack of window seats ,doesn’t pressurization of the hull become more complex as it moves away from a near-enough spherical cross-section to a flatter section?

October 22, 2008 at 11:31 pm in reply to: Less Common Post-1939 Transport Aircraft #1166855

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Lockheed Saturn

First flight 1946 , scrapped 1948, unable to compete with cheaper surplus military types….Lockheed photo scanned from ‘Lockheed Twins’, Air Britain

October 22, 2008 at 7:10 pm in reply to: R.A.E. Farnborough Fairchild Packet #1167084

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C-82 and C-119 Farnborough

Thanks to pagen01 and Short Finals for spotting the ground shot was a C-82….I learned something!!….it would be interesting to know if the serials match the ones in Steve Bond’s photos mentioned in the 2005 post in this revived zombie thread

October 22, 2008 at 12:41 pm in reply to: Less Common Post-1939 Transport Aircraft #1167399

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Lockheed Saturn

Good one, Mr Creosote! Nice and obscure….Lockheed pics on link ….includes theSaturn….and the Constitution

http://www.kbhrr.com/gallery/lockheed.php

and I believe its in Peter Marsons Lockheed Twins available from Air Britain

October 21, 2008 at 12:07 am in reply to: Less Common Post-1939 Transport Aircraft #1168905

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Cormoran , Armagnac

The fuselage of the Cormoran was used as a workshop at Villacoublay until at least the mid-1950s. I saw it the same day as I took those Sahara photos on the other thread but it was too far away to be photographed. Also saw an Armagnac over the Wirral back in the 1950s. It did indeed look like a big Viscount but the piston engine sound was the giveaway! It was probably the rarest aircraft I ever saw from home in those days, apart from an AJ-2 Savage, but I digress.

Atcham Tower ….I have an Armagnac at Heathrow in my spotting log from the late Fifties, noted as T.A.I wrongly I suspect….can’t remember it at all though!! Maybe your one was doing a rugby charter to Scotland?

Google ‘Wooster Hatwing Savage’ for hours of reading about the AJ and carrier borne P2Vs!

October 21, 2008 at 12:00 am in reply to: Less Common Post-1939 Transport Aircraft #1168909

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BZ308

Alertken……

how could Centaurus in 1947 compete with the reliability/economy of big Pratts and Wrights?

There remains a strong Left, Yank-bash strain in Italy.

The designer, Stelio Frati, of those sleek Falcos/Nibbios/Picchios, learnt his trade on the BZ.308 team.

I can’t confirm the BZ308 visiting Northolt but Flight records it visiting Filton… I read BEA funded the engines….the civil Centaurus (e.g in the Ambassador?) was never as powerful as the R-4360 and R-3350 TC which would have put the BZ 308s performance in the DC-4 league?

I like snippets like the Stelio Frati one, thank you

October 20, 2008 at 10:57 pm in reply to: R.A.E. Farnborough Fairchild Packet #1169057

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C-119 or C-82

Presumably, then, the aerial shot is 51-2611 the C-119C in 1953 and the ground shot probably 45-57740 the C-82 in 1952 or 45-57784 if in 1951….the aerial shot has paint diagonals under the wings and 4-bladed props

October 20, 2008 at 9:45 pm in reply to: R.A.E. Farnborough Fairchild Packet #1169225

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C-119 or C-82

pagen01….I originally thought the ground shot was a C-82 from the squareness of the door frame…..I still think the flying shot is a C-119…..there are no ‘lightening’ holes in the top horizontal door frame and there are no fin extensions below the booms (there are photos of C-119Cs like that)

Jim Jobe thanks for the precise info on the C-82s and C-119s seconded to the UK

October 20, 2008 at 1:00 pm in reply to: R.A.E. Farnborough Fairchild Packet #1169877

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C-119 0r C-82

What features make it a C-82, pagen01?

October 19, 2008 at 9:20 pm in reply to: Less Common Post-1939 Transport Aircraft #1170256

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DC-5 ….a little more

John Hopton’s post on the DC-5 in the 1000 aircraft photos site has a potted history of one of the four which reached KNILM in Indonesia( PH-AXE/PJ-AIZ/PK-ADC/41-426/VHCXC/ Yankee Pasha/Bagel Lancer),eventually the last DC-5 survivor in Israel

http://www.1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/Hopton/5545.htm

and on the BoeingImages site, a page including a shot of 2 DC-5s on the dock(Long Beach?) for shipment to KNILM

search’DC-5′ in http://www.boeingimages.com/BoeingCSharpSite/Help.aspx

October 19, 2008 at 12:38 pm in reply to: Less Common Post-1939 Transport Aircraft #1170808

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Breda Airliners

Post war italian rarity….4 Centaurus engines with 5-bladed wooden props…. I think one may have visited Northolt?

http://www.url.it/muvi/mostre/08mostra/mostra.htm

The Breda Company’s aircraft photos are now on Flickr many on the BZ308, which one account suggests was killed off by the Marshall Plan…..there is a photo of a post=war? high wing model I dont recognize and one of the Dragon Rapide influenced pre-war model

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fondazioneisec/sets/72157606218595385/
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