It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminum better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I’m going to buy a British radio set – then at least I’ll own something that has always worked.

Can anyone help or is there nothing survives ??

” (cn 25620/14175) Still in the colours of former owner Martin Baker, with whom she was based at Chalgrove as company transport from 1958, this Dak served Air Atlantique between 1981 and 1984, then going into storage at Coventry. B/u 9.98. The nose was reportedly shipped to Kuwait for a restaurant, and by 2007 the rear fuselage still survived at the Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, UK.”

One of the recent Bond films had a DC-3 sequence, so maybe for that.

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=G-APML

The Daily Fail has finally caught up with the story. seems there have been two bids on E Bay for the Atlantic crossing.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2621414/Final-transatlantic-Lancaster-bomber-flight-auctioned-eBay-25-000-one-way-ticket-Canada-England.html

The trouble with reading any of the DM’s content is the inevitable feelings of low-level despair for our society, induced by either the editorial content, the public comments, or more often both.

Big Nugget- ”The aircraft is not up to modern standard – it could be dangeros to fly that far in the thing > it should be bannet”

I think that it might be a dead one of these:-

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That makes sense. A Havoc Turbinlite.

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Being non-radio in the Cub. I tried to get away before ‘the pack’, but someone else had the same idea !

I felt like Terry Thomas in ‘Magnificent Men’ ” Buzz Orf !”

Thanks Peter, t’was nice and steady. You can be my wing man anytime…..

Everything is conjecture until a factual report is released.

Cessna above Hawker is a much less hazardous scenario, but …………. who knows ? Very sad, whatever the circumstances.

DC3 C-FTGI currently heading NNw to SSE passing Reading at 15000 feet on Flight Radar 24.

Interesting apendages on the aircraft too.

”
C-FTGI is owned by Bell Geospace (based in Houston, Texas and in Aberdeen, Scotland) and operated worldwide by a Canadian operator. C-FTGI is a Basler BT-67, originally a DC-3 built in 1944 but modified and modernized by Basler Turbo in 2008. The aircraft is configured for exploration geophysical survey work with a permanently installed Full Tensor Gravity Gradiometer (FTG) manufactured by Lockheed Martin.

The FTG is entirely passive i.e. it does not produce any emissions apart from those associated with normal electrical power usage. The system is powered continuously and therefore requires reliable mains power (120V or 240V) while the aircraft is parked.

Survey flights are conducted at low-level (nominally 80m above ground) by two pilots and one or two survey technicians. Because the equipment is sensitive to turbulence sorties are, depending on weather conditions, generally flown in calm conditions in the early morning and/or late afternoon amounting to 4-8 hours per day.”

http://www.aerocanada.com/bt-67/c-ftgi/Airborne%20Survey%20Aircraft%20BT-67%20C-FTGI.htm

Look at all the Lancs at Kemble, and a Wellington on finals for 27.

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/eaw006857