Miles T S Venture in Flight Global archive

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1946/1946%20-%200775.html

this link to a Flight 2-pager on the Miles Aeronautical Technical School with pic of the incomplete ‘Venture’….(not the aircraft in the model photos post#2)

‘Wings over Woodley’, by Julian C Temple has: The T.S. Venture (1 built)…A twin engine monoplane designed and partly constructed by students of the Miles Aeronautical Technical School, at Davis Farm, Woodley from 1943.The Venture resulted from a (F G Miles)design competition for a flying laboratory….also to test the new lightweight Miles autopilots under development.It is believed that a fuselage mock-up was built, and the actual aircraft was largely complete in 1946…..No Miles type no. allocated…. tested to destruction by the students in 1948

I’m becoming a Miles fan!!….wish I could afford the Putnam!!

Silver City Breguet Provence (‘Deux Ponts’) 1953

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1953/1953%20-%200943.html?search=silver%20city%20breguet

a search silver city breguet in flight global archive should give an account and pic of the Deux Ponts used Hamburg-Templehof after the military Berlin Airlift

condor not languedoc

John aeroclub’s right of course….

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1937/1937%20-%203554.html

Packets and Flying Boxcars

Simon….I’ve found your uswarplanes site very useful…..I’ve posted some Fairchild ads earlier in the thread which suggest that Fairchild abandoned the name Packet for the C-119 about 1952….do you know of any original documentation (aircraft purchase orders or manuals) showing how the USAF applied the name’ Flying Boxcar’ especially for the early P&W R4360 powered models. I think the best way now to avoid confusion is to just use the C-number , C-82 or C-119.

Some questions arising from internet origins….did the US Marines ever have C-82s (I dont think they did)?….were any C-119A/B/C P&W models re-engined to C-119F equivalent (Wright R3350)? (Chuck Lunsford mentions an unofficial C-119CF model on Ruud leeuws propliner page, but I don’t think he’s suggesting a re-engine….Mick

He had this from 1947 , had Fairey metal props fitted at Heston, but for his 1952 flight UK-Thailand in it he had wooden props refitted….will add the name of the book tonight….Mick (and it was pale blue, his racing colour, withyellow lettering)….scans from Prince Bira’s book ‘Blue Wings to Bangkok’

DH86 First and Last

Some scans from Railway Air Services by John Stroud(the single-pilot 86 G-ACVY survived the war , scrapped Langley 1948, I think)…. and Classic Props vol3 by Mike Hooks (who is far too modest about his Kodachrome photography…the shot of G-ACZP Kidlington 24Apr 1958 is the only colour photo of the DH86 I’ve seen…I have it my spotters log but absolutely cant remember it!!). I’m probably in the minority preferring the single pilot original version

Note to GeoffR….is it possible when making the male mould for the DH86 to make ‘a break’ so the nose of the single-pilot 86 could be substituted. The colour shot of the DH86 is in the tradition of the 2 colour shots of the Empire Boats!! :)….I’ve made a Flickr album which includes some Empire boats on Galilee

http://www.flickr.com/photos/74784995@N00/sets/72157604727564944/

Apologies for the title….G-ACVY was preceded by G-ACPL and one for Australia, so was number 3! Pic of #1 later in thread

Aero 145 Prague (Praha) Ruczyne Airport Terminal

Dont know if this is still there….will replace with my pic from 2002 when I can find it!! 🙂

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Let-Aero-Ae-45S/0636680/L/

Fairchild Packet vs Flying Boxcar ads 1945-1954

Fairchild used ‘flying boxcar’ as an attribute to the Packet aircraft right from the beginning, and appear to have dropped the Packet name as late as 1952

see http://www.flickr.com/photos/74784995@N00/sets/72157607328090308/