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June 19, 2018 at 11:54 pm in reply to: The Hunt For The Missing Hercules 63-7789 #780616

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Item was on ‘PM’ programme this afternoon in the last 15minutes of https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b6hrd7

June 15, 2018 at 1:29 pm in reply to: WWII Flights To Lisbon #782727

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ericmunk Are there any photos in the Jan Hagens books of the KLM operations at Sintra or Oporto during the orange painted period (direct Amsterdam-Portugal April 1940) or during the camouflaged period (Whitchurch-Sintra 1940-1942)?

+(edit)…simonwood…I think Whitchurch got a paved runway in 1941 but I don’t know which month

June 12, 2018 at 9:08 pm in reply to: London Airport in the 1950s #784132

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I was looking at maps showing General Roy’s baseline, the measured 5.19 mile line between bollards near Hampton poorhouse and a point near the Bath Road, Heathrow …this is the basis for the Ordnance Survey of Britain.http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=14&lat=51.4736&lon=-0.4429&layers=11&right=12
(you can change these matching map display pairs by scale and date)
I did wonder if the old 15R/33L runways were parallel to General Roy’s baseline but that seems to be aligned about 320 magnetic (or 16/32 if it was a runway code)
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June 12, 2018 at 4:35 pm in reply to: WWII Flights To Lisbon #784271

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Yes, in post#78 G-AGBC (PH-ALR) Heston 21Sep40…G-AGBI (PH-ARW) Whitchurch 24Nov40

June 11, 2018 at 11:59 pm in reply to: WWII Flights To Lisbon #784420

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There’s a lot of detail about the KLM/BOAC Lisbon flights from Dutch contributors earlier in this thread. Also worth getting a copy of Rosie’s War (1p +postage online!)…a true story reconstructed by Rosie’s daughter from her mother’s fading memories…she nearly gets it right about the flight back from Lisbon with details of the KLM service but since Rosie was flown up to Foynes, then on a flying boat to Poole, it is almost certain Lisbon to Foynes was by flying-boat, too

June 11, 2018 at 5:23 pm in reply to: WWII Flights To Lisbon #784674

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1. There were BOAC Empire flying boat flights from Lisbon to Britain, rather irregular (and often landing at Foynes*), they might also have had the ‘Catalina’s (Guba and Catalina) by then also but not yet the Boeing 314s. *Onward shuttle to Poole Harbour or Whitchurch
2. The BA Heritage Centre have all the movement charts for the KLM DC-3s (plus one DC-2 G-AGBH), about 3x weekly
3. No problem on grass if reasonable surface
4. They refuelled at Chivenor and Oporto as necessary

June 11, 2018 at 5:07 pm in reply to: 1947 – The Flying Newsroom – Lockheed Lodestar #784679

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From Peter Marson’s Lockheed Twins (Air Britain) p371, the Chicago Tribune had a Lodestar C-60A-1-LO (Wright Cyclones) from14Dec45, registration NC61521 , civil conversion by L.A.C 29Nov46,sold to Fruehauf Trailers 27Nov48…with various corporate owners till belly landed Brownsville 20Apr79 … The Lodestar’s main user was tribune journalist John Werkley who ,by then with TIME, was killed with a dozen other US newsmen in a KLM Constellation crash in India , 1949.
The B-17 mentioned was used by the Tribune’s opinionated owner Robert McCormick http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/09/08/230823/index.htm

June 10, 2018 at 9:58 pm in reply to: Israel to USA Flights in the Mid-1950s #785008

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I wonder if there were any direct flights from Chicago to Europe in the mid-fifties? O’Hare didn’t open till 1955 it seems and was underused initially. I knew that Pan Am had no domestic coverage until they started very limited through-plane services with Delta and Northwest around 1970. And although Pan Am listed Jerusalem(Jordan) in 1953 I see the flight number was ME… so Middle East Airlines?, and anyway I imagine not an option from Israel. KLM served Tel-Aviv -Yafo via Rome so they or possibly other European airlines could have connected to New York.

June 10, 2018 at 2:43 pm in reply to: Israel to USA Flights in the Mid-1950s #785186

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I wondered if Pan Am or TWA offered any advantage from Israel to Chicago. Pan Am didn’t list Tel Aviv but Jerusalem then in Jordan was served. TWA listed Tel Aviv-Yafo but only as a connection on another carrier. So El Al to New York sounds most likely

June 9, 2018 at 2:21 pm in reply to: Israel to USA Flights in the Mid-1950s #785833

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The Timetable Images site is your friend…they list Israel amongst the Asian airlines and have the full contents of the 1953 and 1956 timetables online …as I suspected you’d have to fly on an L-049 Constellation via London to New York and change to a US domestic for onwards to Chicago (was O’Hare open then?)

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June 7, 2018 at 11:42 pm in reply to: WWII Flights To Lisbon #786800

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June 7, 2018 at 1:28 pm in reply to: Reid and Siegrist #787128

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Lovely photos, TonyT…looks like your flash was going off in the gloomy afternoon light and adding just the right amount of ‘fill-in’ light.
Didn’t Reid and Sigrist make a Chinese copy of the Leica camera?

June 2, 2018 at 6:27 pm in reply to: Dumped Percival Prentice in India. #789924

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Did Edgar Percival claim to have designed the Prentice single handed like his pre-war work or was he more reticent about it ?

June 2, 2018 at 12:41 pm in reply to: RAF Transport Command pics #790089

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It has been suggested elsewhere that the Skymaster in post #99 is at RAF Northolt photographed from the northeast corner looking southwest….the only thing that casts doubt for me is the presence of a Baltimore but perhaps 1 or 2 made it to the UK by 1945. It looks like a VIP is departing and a parade of airmen have seen him off. Churchill’s EW999 had no nose code and KL980 in which Eden went to Potsdam had nose code HB, I don’t have a serial for ‘HA’. Skymasters KL979 and KL982 are candidates.

June 1, 2018 at 11:11 pm in reply to: RAF Transport Command pics #790272

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Where’s this RAF Transport Command Skymaster? It has nose code HA so NOT Churchills EW999 or Anthony Edens KL980.What is the medium bomber under it’s wing? Photo was in the Google LIFE digitization in a rag-bag album of agency pictures called ‘Air-Aero’ and I think it was a British photo and not taken by LIFE [ATTACH=CONFIG]260818[/ATTACH]
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