GEN 11, never looked so lovely 😎 , is that THE original from the movie, or a replica. :confused:

The Cars of the Stars (Keswick, UK – ref earlier) website says:
http://members.aol.com/cotsmm/cotspg3.html

In fact six cars were used in this film. Two being the racing car, one in a dilapidated state and the other the racing car that crashes. At the end of the film neither of these versions survived. Four other Chittys were produced for various parts of the rest of the film. The hovercraft car, that transforms from car to hovercraft, and three other cars.

Rob / Kansan

Next stop was the Queensland Museum. A classic collection of a state museum, but well provided with what must be a unique set – three world record breaking civil Avro aircraft. The remains of the Saharan Lancaster’s Avro are most poingent.

Enjoy.

Poignant!

Thanks for posting James, I certainly did enjoy! Did you by chance take any more pix of the wreckage of “Southern Cross Minor” ? (BTW I read on an old website that the team from Queensland who went to retrieve the wreckage from Algeria in the 70s looked for Bill Lancaster’s grave in Reggan but couldn’t find it.)

Rob / Kansan

How about Liberators too maybe?

I have been googling and found that C46 Commandoes were used. Crossing the ‘hump’ was nicknamed “Operation Vomit” by aircrews,

Dave (and others)
How many routes over the hump were there? I’ve never thought about it. IIRC from the books some of the first B-29s in the CBI were modified as flying tankers to get fuel for the remaining bomb-carrying B-29s. I think you can see little Camel markings on many B-29 bomb logs (e.g. 42-24579 “Eddie Allen” of Airfix kit fame) where they did a hump mission. The same is true for B-24/C-87/C-109. I don’t think they all made it out intact but I would suspect any wreckage from those areas is likely to be a lot of scrap metal rather than recoverable/usable pieces.

Now, about those Stirlings – one of which was piloted by Lord Lucan and had Shergar in the hold…. 😀

PS very pleased to see that “Aluminium” is in use in NZ. There’s far too much “aloominnum” here. 😀 😀

Rob / Kansan

anyone seen this page on some blenheim relics in NAfrica?

http://www.fjexpeditions.com/frameset/nov01_4.htm

HI Jagan,

The original SAAF operation that went very very wrong was described in a certain British Historic Aviation Magazine. I think also some of the desert pics are posted elsewhere in this forum.

Rob / Kansan

The first ever Great Warbirds at West Malling – 1981?. Rained buckets. I took my Dad and we got soaked – took us two and a half hours to get out of the car park. (A record for us at the time)

The flying programme was severely disrupted by the rain (I think) and at some point a certain Mr. Hanna and A.N. Other went up in MH434 and the Candyman/Moose Mustang and chased each other in and out of the clouds which hung pretty low. It was wonderful. Was that routine unscheduled? Who was flying the P-51?

Rob / Kansan

Edit – Firebird says below it was 1982. That makes more sense to me, thinking about it… 🙂

Two links for you Hebrew speakers out there. There rest of you will just have to believe me!

It’s not only plausible, it’s actually a fact. Weizmann’s Black Spit is modelled after the Faid Spit.
( http://www.iaf-museum.org.il/site/museum.asp?pi=14&doc_id=135 )

Israeli spitfires surviving around the world at http://www.iafe.net/ma/spit.htm . Halfway through is Black 57 – check out the bottom photo. It isn’t very good, but it’s not black either.

HS – This is fantastic. I will tell my Father about this – he’ll be interested. I showed him a picture of ES276 (the black Mark V Spitfire) which he didn’t remember – he certainly never flew it. He does have a picture somewhere of his flight/group/intake at Fayid featuring himself and Ezer Weizmann. He said to me when I was a kid they only had one fatality on their specific course. He finished at 73 OTU sometime before VE-Day – not sure when.

Any chance of an English summary of those sites? My Hebrew is very poor. Actually it’s non-existant.

It’s also a privilege to witness Mark12 finding a Spitfire picture he’s never seen before. 😀

Rob / Kansan

How about a Vietnam gunship with loads of replica miniguns out of the windows? 😀

Been done over here – look at http://www.squadron14.com/

It flew over my house a couple of months ago and freaked out a couple of local vietnam vets.

Rob / Kansan