OO-SOC Rollasons

A Brownie 127 photo in Rollasons hangar ,Aug 1957!

Jeff, as JDK says and hence my reluctance to post them. If you go to the link posted by Longshot that will take you to the original online source of the pics.

Am I the only one who gets keyboard dyslexia BTW? I do worry about it sometimes!

Head Zup, thanks for that info, sounds incredibly thoughtful of the USAF to present Ken Wallis with that momento, met him at Farnborough once and he spoke of the B-36 with what seemed like affection.

pagen01….the links to the Flightglobal archive breakup (I can’t be bothered to use tinyURL which is probably the slick solution) for the original files go to http://www.flightglobal.com the LH column under historical images select post second world war…..page 5 and 6 have the B-36s
re B-36 deployments in UK apparently they used to bomb on the Heligoland range off Germany (I suppose with iron bombs?)….also they did Radar bombing runs on the London Bomb Plot, also known as the Heston Bomb Plot controlled and assessed by the 3903 Radar Bomb Scoring Sqdn in some huts at the eastern end of the Heston hangar complex ( in fact right by where Chamberlain arrived/departed) I think I saw a B-36 at medium altitude over Heston around 1952( the area had good radar returns apparently). Most SAC visitors used the Plot, as did the US Navy (AJ Savages coming up from Port Lyautey, Morocco and landing at Blackbushe), and also the RAF

P-51 photo on Google /Life archive

ok Life database has turned up nothing so i’ve queried them about the photo, hopefully i should get some feedback from them soon. I will keep you posted on that one.

Kiteflyer youve confused me slightly are you talking about the letter near the officers knee or the letter at the back near the star and bars?

The Littlefriends site is extremely good but is not complete, Admitedly i have used it to try and track down this particular Mustang.

There is no ‘Life archivist’ as such (we are the archivists! :))….. the photo is in a folder(see link) but there’s no info at all with it, and its most likely an Agency or Air Force photo print LIFE got hold of.Its worth searching ‘Margaret Bourke-White plane’ for WWII aircraft photos in the archive….lots of B-17s in colour, too

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=1939-1945+US+source:life&sa=N&start=126&ndsp=18

Wings over Woodley

Brian….I read a library copy a few months ago and I’m pretty sure there’s a page or two with pics of the M-52. Public library is probably the best way to get it….Wings over Woodley is almost as hard to buy as the Miles Putnam. The blockbuster Air Britain Miles book (Volume I) is out now but think the M-52 won’t appear till VolIII.

I think the M-52 should have been completed and flown (suck it and see?) but the X-1 programme had 3 features that were better thought out than the M-52….
1) it was dropped from a carrier 7-8 miles up
2) it was rocket powered….no air intake design problems
3) a glide landing to a generous desert runway perhaps simplified recovery

Youre not in the same place.

The location Joe linked to was the location of the Fairey aircraft, the old Heston Aerodrome location was the Fairey Weapons facility. The area occupied by the BA Concorde club was behind (i.e north of) the old Fairey hangers, and not on the actual airfield. The airfield area (to the south-east of the old Fairey hangers) was built on with residential houses, the road names are all named after famous aircraft.

Heston airfield mainly lay North of the hangars marked FAIREY(Fairey Nuclear and Hydraulic, I think) in the 60s(and was about 2 miles S-E of the main FAIREY Hayes factory)The Brabazon estate with Aviation names (Bleriot, D-H, sopwith etc) to the south of Cranford Lane was never taken up as part of Heston airfield though there were pre-war plans to do so….it was still farm land in the early 50s.
Heston Airfield (WWII) was bounded to the south by Cranford Lane, to the west by Southall Lane (aka Tentelow Lane be careful theres another one near Greenford!) to the east by North Hyde Lane, Heston and to the North by Wentworth Rd (the notch in the south east corner formed by Berkeley Waye/School and the Vale was always there from the 30s, Google Collectair Woodason for some maps
The hangars were in a shallow arrow head pattern slightly north of Cranford Lane…. the still standing curved roof concrete Jackaman hangar was to the east of the now-demolished control tower reached by Aerodrome way

ET-T-35

Well done , wieesso…I hadn’t thought of Ed coates site! Its at the western end of the LAP (LHR) Northside ramp….behind the BOAC bus are the black sheds which became the ‘Green Dragon’ cafe….on the RH border is the edge of the Alcock and Brown statue I think.I’ve found a nose shot in an older Connie book. After the crash EAL got DC-6Bs

Large scale models

I’m surprised there are less full scale non-flying replicas of peoples favourite extinct types…. there isn’t one (afaik) of the DH Hornet , though the painstaking restoration of a real one is a live project….the 1/4 and 1/5.4 scale flying models are seriously impressive (see link, includes youtube link)….guess the first step is to switch off that time-sponge computer and start carving wood!!……..

http://www.dhhornet50.net/index.php?f=data_home&a=8

P.S. my dream 100% non-flying model/replica would be the Heston-Napier ‘Racer’!