Culdrose weather

The organisers should look at finding a date/month with a better chance of decent weather…today was grim round Mounts Bay till about 4

And there is an aviation link :)…he grew up in Limerick near Shannon and relates being dropped off at Shannon by MATS flights when he was in the US Army in Germany

TSR-2 off carriers

I’m not into the Warbird thing at all (glorifying war etc.) , and this thread is a Sunday Afternoon ‘filler’, but I think TSR-2 could have been LAUNCHED from a carrier….first website i found with a Takeoff run gives 490 metres (and that would be off land)….don’t forget the USN had P-2 Neptunes(admittedly rocket boosted) assigned to carriers before the NA Savage was ready. I’m sure I read somewhere the Vickers Valiant was studied for Carrier launch…….

G-ADUW G-AETZ

Bertrand…for starters, G-ADUW ‘CASTOR’ survived the war, serving with BOAC post-war, broken up Hythe UK 4Feb1947
G-AETZ ‘CIRCE’ lost between Broome, Australia and Tijlatjap 28Feb1942

Piaggio 166 G-ARUJ LHR 1970

http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1004252/

York in the Wilderness

?? that attitude could apply to every flying warbird restoration, or every preserved airframe already displayed in a museum – if photos are enough for you?

Regards

Mark Pilkington

do ALL wrecks have to be recovered?…. re ‘restorations’ you can wipe out a lot of history with a can of paint and a spray-gun :)…have you ever seen the Halifax displayed in ‘as found’ state in the RAF Museum?….however,I have to admit I’d be impressed if someone got the York out and into flyable condition, and I would say ‘Treasure of the Humboldt Glacier’ (the Kee Bird) is not only a top aviation documentary but it stands up as a great movie about endeavour!…. regards, longshot

York in the Wilderness

Why not leave where it is ? 🙂 We have the photos

Longshot:
You asked about Cravelle F-BJAO.
Last time I looked for info on the web I discovered that more than one Caravelle seemed to have received that registration…very French!

I had the same problem hunting for info on another demonstrator I photographed at that time -Boeing 737 N7003U. It also seemed to have been registered to more than one airframe.

David

DT

David….This , according to the A. Avrane Caravelle book, is c/n42 which was delivered across the Atlantic to GE in July 1960 as N420GE and converted to CJ.805-23C aft-fan engines (similar to the CV-990 Coronado’s) An order for 20 designated Caravelle 7A from TWA fell through. N429GE was returned to SUD at the end of 1961 and sent on a tour of the Far East as F-BJSO* from 12 April 1962 till 21 May 1962….back in France it was converted back to an Avon engine Caravelle 3 as F-WLKF then F-BLKF and delivered to Air France in July 1963.( *Your photo clearly shows it was wearing F-BJAO in the Far East, and it has the GE engines, Caravelle 3 length fuselage, and original cockpit windows of the “7”.)

Confusingly the Avrane book has a photo of c/n 63 the series 10A Caravelle Horizon prototype as F-WJAO, (1 metre longer with different cockpit windows) it was exhibited at the Paris Air show in June1963 then basically abandoned with the switch to the P&W JT-8D Caravelle 10B Caravelle which went into production. Avrane records the nose of c/n63 being used to complete c/n 259 a Caravelle 12A
So could your photo have been in 1962?
Superb quality pics as usual….Mick (P.S. searching for pics of F-WJAO on the net it seems many Caravelles made their first flight with those markings)