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  • March 11, 2019 at 8:02 pm in reply to: Swiss Citizens Deported To Portugal In 1941 #814356
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    There was a 2-3x weekly KLM/BOAC DC-3 landplane service to Oporto and Lisbon from Whitchurch Bristol from autumn 1940 and BOAC ran flying boat services from Poole and Foynes(Shannon) to Lisbon. Pan Am’s Clipper service was between Lisbon and New York…the branches to Southampton and Marseilles were abandoned in September 1939 when WWII broke out

    March 10, 2019 at 7:40 pm in reply to: BOAC Liberator II Landing At Prestwick #814581
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    The Vanderkloot video seems to be available from Amazon prime for a $2.99 48hr rental….nobody has had a go at identifying the British type at 3.28 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfSysf2TEA0 🙂

    March 10, 2019 at 3:06 pm in reply to: BOAC Liberator II Landing At Prestwick #814620
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    It’s not available in the UK on that Vimeo link…I looked on Youtube searching ‘Ferry Command’ but there only seem to be trailers for it though plenty of other Ferry Command film. This silent one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfSysf2TEA0 has a less common British type taking off at 3.28 but is otherwise just a mish-mash at Prestwick

    March 7, 2019 at 9:02 pm in reply to: Viscount 700 up for auction! #815387
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    Looks like a Viscount 800 to me…rectangular doors,longer fuselage and extra windows .

    February 17, 2019 at 9:12 pm in reply to: Miles à la française #818572
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    I may be having a sense of humour failure but I hate convincing looking web-pages (in #2?) about subjects I don’t know enough about to instantly realize they’re fantasy without checking…I believe it’s called fake news these days

    February 9, 2019 at 8:19 pm in reply to: What was the first "Wet Wing" aircraft? #819707
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    Not the first example but I think the original Liberators ( a Vultee related product?) such as the LB-30s used by the RAF and BOAC had integral tankage /’wet wings’ but later Liberators got rubberized self-sealing tanks

    January 24, 2019 at 10:29 pm in reply to: DC-3C. N467KS… #822794
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    I suspect Brian Stoltzfus was related to Ken Stoltzfus who built this site http://www.flyinghigher.net/index.html

    January 13, 2019 at 4:19 pm in reply to: BOAC Liberator II Landing At Prestwick #824945
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    I was aware of Peter Berry’s records of the transatlantic flying-boat ops in WWII (available from the Fynes flying-boat museum) but where are the landplane records archived…are they online anywhere?

    January 2, 2019 at 1:49 pm in reply to: French Air Force Museum at Le Bourget #827447
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    The French swept-wing wing type next to the F-100 is the Dassault Mystère…’.Mistel’ was a series of WWII German piggyback projects I believe

    December 19, 2018 at 2:45 pm in reply to: London Airport in the 1950s #830029
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    A guide book to spotting at Heathrow, mid-fifties contains this illustration of what I think was the little cafe on the north of the Bath Road opposite the LAP North terminal and airline offices …[ATTACH=JSON]{“alt”:”Click image for larger version Name:tAirport-Cafe-1957ih.jpg Views:t1 Size:t208.4 KB ID:t3844099″,”data-align”:”none”,”data-attachmentid”:”3844099″,”data-size”:”full”}[/ATTACH]

    December 19, 2018 at 2:29 pm in reply to: Handley Page 0/400 G-EAAF #830038
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    Well done, chaps…very interesting and little-known topic!

    December 17, 2018 at 1:32 pm in reply to: BOAC Liberator II Landing At Prestwick #830304
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    Perhaps worth noting there are 6 Libs in the flickr photo…also is the ‘photo-ship’ a B-25…perhaps the same as this one? https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/14519946882/in/album-72157645345042686/ which route were the Dutch B-25s ferried in early 1942?

    December 16, 2018 at 2:13 am in reply to: BOAC Liberator II Landing At Prestwick #830612
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    The early RFS/BOAC Liberators were LB-30 type and I believe had integral fuel tanks (i.e. the wing box structure was sealed as a tank…was it a first example?)) but in 1943 BOAC were supplied with some later longer nosed Liberator models with self-sealing tanks (registered G-AGJ… and G-AGK…. I’ve read that these were nicknamed ‘self-leaking’ tanks by BOAC staff…perhaps Adrian can expand or correct that story?

    November 25, 2018 at 12:30 pm in reply to: BOAC Liberator II Landing At Prestwick #834730
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    Perhaps worth noting that the second Liberator photo is of a different aircraft (has bare metal bomb doors and oval cowlings , and turret!) (therefore not an LB-30)

    November 4, 2018 at 10:14 pm in reply to: 1930s biplane with W shape wing? #768931
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    I would say it’s not based on any real aeroplane , just a period toy

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