C-119 ‘Photoship’ at Farnborough 1953

Scanned from Charles E Brown’s ‘Camera above the Clouds’ Vol I

Fairchild Packet Farnborough mid Fifties

The Scramble Airshow Archive has 51-2611 a P&W R-4360 engined C-119C listed at Farnborough 1956/1957….scans from Charles E Brown’s book show one being used as a photoship in 1953 , see post #30 on link
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=84084&highlight=c82+c119

I would like to see more info/pics on the C-82 used by the UK

G-ADWT/CF-NXT

This WAS in the Oshkosh Museum, but has been brought back to the UK and restored around year 2000 as G-ADWT, see link

http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/miles_m-2.php

G-ADWT is believed to have landed at dusk at Heston around 1956 i.e. 7 or 8 years after the airfield closed and flown out next day after a night in the hangar…..a strong candidate for the last fixed wing visitor at Heston

Just for the record, the Lufthansa “Connie” is actually an L-1649A Starliner (N7316C).

I can recall seeing the odd Lufthansa Starliner at LHR in 1961/62 (I was young then!) but did they ever operate any other type of Connie?

Yes. They resumed long-range post-war services about 1956 with L-1049G Super Constellations with tip-tanks (short range they had Daks, then CV-440s then Viscounts)

My memory of the Starliner at LHR in the 50s is that it leapt off the runway whereas the earlier models seemed to climb slowly

P2V and AJ carrier deployment

Kenneth Wooster’s pages on the Hatwing program are excellent…I think he flew both types….

http://web.cortland.edu/woosterk/navy01.html

Less Common Post-1939 Transport Aircraft

I’ve launched the above thread as as spin-off from this interesting quiz…. it was the French types in the Flight report from the 1949 Paris show that caught my attention

Mystery fuselage FW 200 Condor not Languedoc

I think its definitely the same photo as in Flight Dec 13 1937….I did earlier wonder if it was a Leduc launch vehicle Languedoc because of the plate on the inner roof of the photo in post#1 but as I said the support posts would have gone right through the fuselage (was there only one Languedoc converted?…theres a section and superb model in the Le Bourget museum)

The Condor and Languedoc were only about as wide as the DC-3 I would say

If you’re into old prop interiors there’s a pic of the Ju 90(a fatter aircraft) in Flight Sep13 1937

and on this link a photo(click for large) of the Lufthansa Condor which flew Berlin-NY nonstop 70 years ago

http://www.flightglobal.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?search=berlin+new+york&IncludeBlogs=104