If you want to read what Ernest K Gann thought of the C-87 Liberator Express , ‘Fate is the Hunter’ has been re-issued as a paperback for £3 ‘in a bargain bookshop on your high street’
Does Aviation Traders 7 seat Prentice conversion count?
And this was the BZ308 shot I was looking for https://www.flickr.com/photos/fondazioneisec/2675957879/in/dateposted/
Also some Convair 240s (but not the 340/440?)…also the exotic Breda Zappata BZ 308 https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Flivedoor.blogimg.jp%2Fgenneigennjitu2005%2Fimgs%2Fe%2Fe%2Feeaeaffc.bmp&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.livedoor.jp%2Fgenneigennjitu2005%2Farchives%2F2008-12-13.html&docid=bD-qzqz_axQAGM&tbnid=O4YTKdBgYNaZGM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwiA2r2h5OPTAhXJDMAKHWiYBWwQMwhxKDcwNw..i&w=535&h=358&hl=en-GB&bih=800&biw=1280&q=bz308&ved=0ahUKEwiA2r2h5OPTAhXJDMAKHWiYBWwQMwhxKDcwNw&iact=mrc&uact=8
The Popperfoto agency got issued some rare Kodak colour film to record Berwick , a frequent visitor to Lisbon….here at the home base Poole
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/world-war-two-june-1943-female-seamen-of-boac-moor-the-boeing-314a-picture-id79028408?s=594×594
The flying boat flights to Lisbon were touched on in this thread from 2015 http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?134045-Aeroplane-Monthly-April-2015-BOAC-Special
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/asset/air-aero-1920-2…“x”%3A0.47294075291685006%2C”y”%3A0.4176570870639006%2C”z”%3A10.378986553059733%2C”size”%3A%7B”width”%3A0.6292660335134237%2C”height”%3A0.5136642467061758%7D%7D
Ian, check your PMs…
It shouldn’t be overlooked that much of the flying to Lisbon (often en-route to Bathurst, Gambia) in WWII was done by flying boats, from Poole and Foynes (Rineanna) , Eire, but they weren’t photographed much. I think this shot of G-AFCK Golden Horn was taken at Lisbon during repairs before it crashed in the river Tagus
Ian….
Post#35…CW-20 sources, books like ‘Blockade Runners’, BA Museum, internet, Air-Britain abix forum for the CW-20’s last days….
Post#37 …nearest is a DC-3, then 2 DC-2s
Post #38…yes DC-2 on right
Curtiss CW-20 G-AGDI St Louis, with BOAC including it’s demise
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EDIT….oops, you have to look further down the list….digitized by the Smithsonian
SX-DAA , a 27 seat Liberator, was sold post-war to the Greek Hellenic Airlines after service with Scottish Aviation as G-AGZI. Scottish Aviation were involved in the maintenance of RFS Liberators .Photo at Athens?
See …..http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac5/ROW%20Europe/SX-DAA.html
BOAC’s Curtiss CW-20 G-AGDI St Louis made it’s first trips outside the UK in early 1942 to Lisbon en-route to Bathurst Gambia but no photos exist of it at Lisbon….this is probably at Whitchurch…St Louis also flew the more dangerous routes to Malta and Stockholm in 1942 (pic from the SDASM/flickr collection )
Readable on the second listing
Few post-war BOAC pics here http://aviadejavu.ru/Site/Arts/Art8737.htm
Ian…there’s several listed in http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/firstfiles.html pages 16/17 in the BOAC fleet listings…gives Prestwick as PR…not without humour, see Vaalbank Dam code
Re post #23….where did OY-DEM continue to fly to 1940 -1945 and where was it based? I see that it (surprisingly?) went back into service with DDL post-war until damaged at Northolt September 1946. Brilliant photo of the DDL/SABENA/KLM orange group!
Re post #13…. did the orange painted DC-3s actually fly from the route Amsterdam to Naples?*In Ivan Smirnoff’s biography he talks about having to take the train from Naples to Amsterdam across Germany (obviously before Holland was invaded)…France did not permit KLM overflying to Lisbon, Italy got increasingly difficult with Imperial/BOAC and I wonder if KLM would fly over Germany in late1939/early 1940