Cracking pictures….you got caught out, though, by the American Airlines graphic dodge D7C…its a basic DC-7 with the original wing (DC-4 span)…the genuine DC-7Cs had a 10foot bigger span (plus a longer fuselage and a squarer taller fin)

Kee Bird recovery Documentary

I think this documentary which was shown on British TV as ‘The Treasure of the Humboldt Glacier’ with a British voiceover, I think, runs rings round any conceivable fictional story. The tragedy of the death of Rick at the end of the first attempt then the fire just at the moment of success put this documentary onto another level. I always thought it deserved Cinema release and something about the story reminds me of the fictional ‘Treasure of the Sierra Madre’ Bogart movie.

F-28 COD project 1981

There’s a page from Flight magazine in 1981 further down on the sim-outhouse page which suggests it was a serious study by Fokker
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1981/1981%20-%203133.html

also of interest
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1980/1980%20-%203356.html?search=727 US Navy COD

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1981/1981%20-%202386.html?search=727 US Navy COD

Must be true. I remember a Fokker drawing of a F-28 in USN colours onboard a carrier. And found it
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?54692-Not-a-big-tube-fan-unless…

Large carrier aircraft….Hatwing Project

Kenneth Wooster’s pages on the Hatwing project (P2Vs and AJs off carriers) are excellent
http://web.cortland.edu/woosterk/hatwing1.html

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

As well as RATO assisted takeoffs, touch and go practice landings on the Roosevelt were made by a P2V though never a full landing

Didn’t some airliners with better than average field capabilities get studied for the COD role (Boeing 727, Fairchild/Fokker F-28)?

Magic…thank you….I think G-AAUC Horsa (ex Hecate!!) is less commonly illustrated, and I like the Air France Fokker

Has that 727 got the Valsan side engine mods?

The YB-29 Hobo Queen made its European landfall at St Mawgan in 1944 then did a tour of several bases…see ‘”Washington Times”
http://www.rafwatton.info/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=S7i-60gxfv0%3D&tabid=90&mid=417

and see post#15 on
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=40981&highlight=b-29+uk

For the 2nd B-29 UK visit at Bovingdon in 1946 post#15 on
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=87533

and for one actually using Heathrow possibly 1949
http://www.skyport-heathrow.co.uk/2011/07/flypast-what-was-bombers-missi.html

Thread-drift…Was the Valiant ever evaluated by any force for ‘one-way’ use off carriers ? It’s ability to take-off from Brooklands was impressive