Excellent stuff!!…colour film, too…loved the sequence of the Stratoliner flying through the Grand Canyon. I wonder how often the BOAC/RFS Liberators went on to the USA from Canada?
Presumably the F-117 V-tail produces less radar reflection than a conventional inverted T configuration
Nobody’s mentioned the F-117 yet, have they? Presumably the it’s V-tail confers stealthiness?
THe Archivist at the Croydon Airport Society once mentioned that there was talk of extending the TWA/ATC Stratoliner flights beyond Prestwick to Croydon…no idea of when in WWII or who’s idea it was and I don’t think it happened.
They’re talking about ultrasound, surely, i.e. sound waves at frequencies above normal human hearing http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/crr_pdf/2001/crr01343.pdf
The Brabazon was going to have one at an early stage of the project https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/air-aero-1920-2-folders/0AE-08ADGhK1AA
Ian In the Peter Berry Prestwick book there is a 17MAY42 photo of another TWA /ATC Boeing 307 ‘Zuni’ N19907 credited IWM ref CH.17433 but I can’t find it in the excellent IWM online collection
Prestwick, but a change from Liberators….TWA’s Boeing Stratoliners flew more than 100 Atlantic transport trips for the USAAF ATC before replacement by C-54s https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205383866
The Atlantic has a listing of pilots anonymous reports filed in the US* about the 737 MAX (mostly after the LIONAIR crash). (* to the NASA run Aviation Safety Reporting System). Reports #3 and 4 are the most critical of the MAX training and handbook . https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2019/03/heres-what-was-on-the-record-about-problems-with-the-737-max/584791/
It’s all a little puzzling…the only other content I can find in ‘Albums’ are the 20 Albums of Frank Hedges Butler but only the full indexes can be seen not the photos! http://raec.daisy.websds.net/hbalbum2.htm All ‘work in progress’, perhaps
So far I’ve found a few albums in the ‘Showcase’ http://raec.daisy.websds.net/DisplayShowCaseDocs.aspx (e.g.The Gustav Hamel Pdf , the Bristol Monoplane/Vickers Bullet album HTMLand the 1000mile trial (Cars) HTML/Pdf and (perhaps no surprise? 🙂 ) the 1931 Schneider Trophy programme HTML )
Thanks Schneiderman… From your link (unless I’m missing something) the RAeC photo collection is scanned and digitised but not indexed and only available to view on a computer in the RAF Museum at Hendon according to this message
‘ The Royal Aero Club Collection includes more than 10,000 photographs and postcards, …Many, but not all, of the photographs are captioned. Unfortunately, the photographs are in no particular order in the Collection and they have not been indexed or catalogued. However, they have all been scanned and digitised, and these computer images can be browsed by prior appointment in the Reading Room run by the Archive and Library of the Royal Air Force Museum, Grahame Park Way, Hendon, London NW9 5LL. ‘ .
So not online anymore?
Bump….Hi Schneiderman…Has the RAeS photo archive disappeared from the internet now? Picasaweb is no more it seems.
Looking through some notes a contact made in the Hatton Cross days of the BA/BOAC archive there are references to the Liberator ops in 1942-1943 charts titled intially ‘North Atlantic Landplane Operations’, then ‘Montreal Base Operations’ and later ‘Liberator Operations’ .
Sounds more like a repatriation of neutral Swiss citizens via Lisbon than a ‘deportation’. Maybe they could afford the plane tickets.