Yes, agreed, I was unsure but took a guess based on the rounded fin!. Re DC5’s the only photos I seem to remember are in Japanese markings, I know there were none in the Imperial Airways photograph library when I owned it!.

Cheers Brian.

How big was the Imperial Airways photo library? did it come from Brian stainer/….. I found a load of Imperial photos in the US Library of Congress online photo collection and edited them into a FLICKR album….Imperial Airways Palestine will probably get you there…..I enjoyed a swift look at your albums

Green Dragon – Yes, we all had motorbikes, thrashed all over the place to various airfields, kept getting chucked out by the police because we were not MCA staff – once being locked in the cells for a couple of hours to try and convince us. Sipson Road lot kept threatening to do us all over, but never did. One of the guys had a Vincent Rapide – they now go for over £30K. Happy Daze?

That UAT painting is a cracker!.

Brian.

I remember Brian Stainer on an Ariel Arrow….gave up taking my own pics because his were so good!

Please don’t apologise Brian!….Were you part of the Green Dragon gang at LAP North? I remember some of them going over to Paris around 1959-1960…I didn’t have enough pocket-money!!……..Mick(longshot)

The 2 pics could be joined up as a panorama (the Daks at the back match up)

The aircraft in the LH side of the left thumbnail are , I think, F-BGSK DC-6A of UAT/Aeromaritime….there is a Heron (De Havilland’s demonstrator in 1959), behind that I think the very rare prototype Agusta AZ-8 4 engine feederliner ( bit like a small viscount)…behind that a Twin Pioneer and a Do-28 and some light types…also a couple of Air France/Postale de Nuit Daks

In the right thumbnail , over the back a line-up of military single engine jets?…The Pan Am short tail 707 first came to Europe in 1958 and the SAS Caravelle probably dates the pic to 1959

My guess is they’re connected with the Paris Air Show ,some of the types checkout with the Flight mag report for the 59 show but there are no pavilions visible…. the Agusta AZ-8 is a longshot 🙂 but its too early to be a Potez 840/841

BTW Brian , do you have any memories of the ground enclosure round the time the LAP tunnel was being dug?

Fleet Air Arm photos in LIFE Mag Archive

These have recently been added, with a sample

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=1939-1945+Fleet+Airarm+source:life&sa=N&start=21&ndsp=21

Valiant Spar Fatigue

No doubt the Valiants could have been resparred or rewinged if the RAF didn’t have 2 other V-bomber types already….after all they resparred the Pembrokes :)…the B.2 was Vickers thinking ahead

Not Hurn – the general look of the countryside is wrong(Pics 2 & 3) and the hangar layout is not right either (pic1)…..and it doesn’t look like early 50s LHR to me.

Here’s a view of Heathrow about 1952 (Google Life archive) from the early 50s Northside tower shot from 2-300 yards further north than the mystery top pic pointing about 10 degrees more easterly (their paste up in the middle, not mine! :)) you can see the trio of BOAC hangars running parallel to 23L …this photo from searching Air Aero 1920- source:life in Google images