There are several images of Churchill in the Boeing around, the IWM’s being credited to an official photographer (a Captain Horton) but it’s the first time I’ve seen Buck’s photos and story.

WINSTON CHURCHILL DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN BERMUDA. © IWM (H 16637)

WINSTON CHURCHILL DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN BERMUDA. © IWM (H 16632)

WINSTON CHURCHILL AS PRIME MINISTER 1940-1945. © IWM (H 16645)

Very interesting stuff….any ideas about the Lockheed 14 in #86 of the East African pics?

Won’t be a Lockheed trimotor :)….blind guess its a Stinson!….lets see the photo,now

Lots of USAF Cold War images there, some from LIFE magazine but a lot from other sources

Trying to find a LIFE essay on Prestwick I found these shots of F-80s arriving in Glasgow but they were assembled at Renfrew it seems (with the dock cranes visible in the photos)
http://images.google.com/search?q=walter+sanders+scotland+1948&q=source%3Alife&biw=1440&bih=663&sei=s6vjT5apDcO1hAfphNTRCQ&tbm=isch
http://images.google.com/search?q=walter+sanders+september+1948&q=source%3Alife&biw=1440&bih=663&sei=larjT8W8L4bIhAefyYnCCQ&tbm=isch

Buses on the Tarmac?

Hallo Veeone….Thought you might enjoy these as a fellow Heathrobsessive!There are some rather atmospheric photos of LT buses mixing it with airliners on the new London Transport Museum Pick&Mix website (search term ‘airport’)
http://www.pickmix.co.uk/explore?s=airport&t=

some samples
http://www.pickmix.co.uk/199845100-bw-print-colin-tait
http://www.pickmix.co.uk/199871954-bw-print-topical-press
http://www.pickmix.co.uk/199885334-bw-print-dr-heinz-zinram
http://www.pickmix.co.uk/199856550-bw-print-w-h-r-godwin
http://www.pickmix.co.uk/199845063-bw-print-w-h-r-godwin
http://www.pickmix.co.uk/199885018-bw-print-w-h-r-godwin
http://www.pickmix.co.uk/199885518-bw-print-w-h-r-godwin
http://www.pickmix.co.uk/199856557-bw-print-colin-tait

The shots with the VC-10s didn’t need to be arranged, thats how it was on the road from Harlington Corner to Hatton Cross from the late 1950s till the early 2000s, I think.

The Topical Press photo is with a USAF/MATS C-54 which were fairly common visitors in the 1950s.

The Pick&Mix site has lots of Aerofilms aerial shots of London and suburbs

Classic photos, thanks….British United was formed in 1960 giving an earliest limit to G-AMYX and G-ANTC which I think had come from Transair…..Gregory ( Denham) got G-AKJH from Derby Aviation in 1965 and its in Derby stripes so 1965?

‘Lockheed Twins’by Peter Marson has FC-AXM registered as F-BAMM after 11 June 1945 but not taken up, destroyed Tripoli, Libya, 30 September 1945 still registered as “AXM”. There is newsreel of General Cattroux arriving at a base in the Hudson FK532 on
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/general-catroux-aka-gen-catroux

Good newsreel of F-ARTF with the Reseau Aerien Militaire Francais/Air France, the successor to L.A.M on
http://www.ina.fr/histoire-et-conflits/decolonisation/video/AFE00002979/le-general-catroux-recoit-des-notables-arabes.fr.html