Good photos….the Noratlas and Ambassadors are piston not turboprop engined, though and the An-12 is beautiful, not ugly 🙂
Concorde move Brooklands
Hung about till 1630 and they put the nose back on :). I was a bit surprised the Viking had been put outside but I guess its more water-resistant than the Vimy in the hangar
Brazilian Air Bases essay on LIFE
Last Italian mailplane lands Natal 1941
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/ac939b71d766c116.html
DC-2 ‘U.S.10’ and Pan Am DC-3s ready to cross Atlantic,, Natal
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/b3e0776d58934e15.html
Pan Am Boeing 314 N18612 etc. at Natal seaplane jetty
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/a96efea897601cd1.html
Grumman Goose at jetty
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/d10ad663f7a09ff0.html
DC-2s with differences
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/875359a838e378d0.html
Dmitri Kessel photos on Life
Polikarpov and Ju-52
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f0d04554160b8bad.html
CLARE at La Guardia 1940
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/64c028a70b50b424.html
PBY B-24 P-38s P-40s colour Aleutians
https://www.google.com/search?q=aleutians+kessel&q=source%3Alife&gws_rd=ssl&tbm=isch
Ferry Command (U.S.)
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/956812a119776273.html
G-APRI is at Luton, I think ….shape of tower, and its under the wingtip of G-ARXE a Britannia A/W Connie….if you enable the tag function on flickr anybody can add locations as tags which then show up on a search by location, whereas locations added as comments don’t
Marathon
Pretty plane, but with that fuselage section they couldn’t pressurize it, could they? Which would have created problems for a turboprop version.I’m struck by the similarities in capability with the DH Flamingo which had rather more power
Flying with no wings in Cornwall
An old photo on that site I took nearly 30 years ago!http://www.cornwalls.co.uk/photos/img2063.htm
Some of the other Cornish place name sites give you more info on the language
Hi longshot. Thanks for the info, I found it very interesting to read. Incidently we went through Herodsfoot today. and on the way to Mevagissy, went through London Apprentice also,.Living in the flatlands of Lincolnshire, it has been a sight for sore eyes to see such fantastic scenery here, made even more interesting by these names.
Lincoln .7
Flying with no wings in Cornwall
An old photo on that site I took nearly 30 years ago!http://www.cornwalls.co.uk/photos/img2063.htm
Some of the other Cornish place name sites give you more info on the language
Hi longshot. Thanks for the info, I found it very interesting to read. Incidently we went through Herodsfoot today. and on the way to Mevagissy, went through London Apprentice also,.Living in the flatlands of Lincolnshire, it has been a sight for sore eyes to see such fantastic scenery here, made even more interesting by these names.
Lincoln .7
New Zealand Airliner History
An excellent and comprehensive set on another forum thats doing the rounds
http://rnzaf.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=civil&action=print&thread=12612
Cornish place names
The place names in Cornwall are often exotic because they derive from the Cornish language…list attached of some (nice photos on site, too)
Praze-an-Beeble used to have a railway station
Come-to-Good in Cornwall isn’t mentioned
http://www.cornwalls.co.uk/culture/cornish_place_names.htm
Cornish place names
The place names in Cornwall are often exotic because they derive from the Cornish language…list attached of some (nice photos on site, too)
Praze-an-Beeble used to have a railway station
Come-to-Good in Cornwall isn’t mentioned
http://www.cornwalls.co.uk/culture/cornish_place_names.htm
Lovely quality….what camera&lens?
Valiants
This link gives the Valiants on flickr…slideshow works well
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=valiant&w=37210624%40N03
More flickr albums
Found this set of b&w 50s US Airliners (collection of Leo J Kohn) looking for a Pan Am DC-7B with the globe scheme(this is last page of 4)http://www.flickr.com/photos/50866030@N06/page8/
and as mentioned elsewhere on Key David Whitworth’s photos with the Tony Clarke collection(U.K. mainly 50s)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwhitworth/