Quite a tale!

”As everybody “knows”, the Cessna 150 is slow, has limited range and payload, and while it is fine to learn in and fly around the pattern, you can’t really go anywhere in one . . . Well nobody told that to Janette Schönburg because in 1980, she flew THIS 1966 Cessna 150, UK registration G-AWAW from London England to Darwin, Australia, solo.

Her trip was amazing and it could not be duplicated today. Janette and G-AWAW had to contend with sandstorms, torrential rains, political problems (at one point she was almost arrested because the authorities would not believe a woman could possibly be the pilot), physical problems (extreme dehydration), running on three cylinders and barely able to hold altitude over the shark-filled Andaman sea and more. The 11,000 mile trip was utterly hair raising but she did it!”

Now being restored in Florida

http://g-awaw.org/

The Horsemen site shows them due to appear at both the May and July Duxford shows this year

http://www.horsemenflight.com/

Chris

I believe they picked up a rather tasty sponsorship package from Findus Foods

This Hurricane replica ( from Italy ) is rather nicely done.

It is a two seater, rather in the manner of the Mk26 scale Spitfires

http://www.squadronleader.it/hurricane_eng.htm

One thing I draw from this thread is that the Flypast Historic Aviation Forum seems to stand out in terms of breadth of coverage and contributors, esp UK based activities but with a healthy international flavour.

Nothing else even close. The depth, detail and knowledge of ‘anything/everything’ is beyond compare, from the biggest museums, to half an Auster frame in a bush in Somerset. If you Google a historic aviation subject, this forum is often in the top 3 returns.

I have hardly opened any of my editions of Wrecks & Relics since 2004, just no need. This is a formidable resource, and all free!

Must be the 10 year anniversary coming up soon?

JH was no stranger to hyperbole, but still, that was one scary trip 😮

This ‘news’ occurred in March last year.

There is reasonable supposition by those ‘ in the know’ that the Huey may have suffered hydraulic failure, and can be seen to ‘pause’ at the start of the descent, with no change in bank angle. It is by no means a ‘cut and dried’ case of pilot error.

Some good info here, and colour profile illustrations.

http://b-17-flying-fortress.actifforum.com/t193-b17-de-l-ign-institut-geographique-national-ign-b-17s

In the UK, we received from the IGN ‘Sally B’ of course, the IWM example at Duxford, Doug Arnold’s one to Blackbushe, and F-BEEA, which crashed and burnt at Binbrook.