Wing walking

He would have jettisoned the hatch above the w/op position, stood on the main spar and climbed out. No other way onto the wing from inside. Not much to hang on to though. Certainly no convenient handholds on the wing.

RB

Handbags

dafyth, you’d be wise to steer clear of this thread. Like so many that start off with good intentions, it appears to have degenerated into a “handbags at 50 paces” slanging match.

Janie

Croydon had very sophisticated aerodrome lighting – I have attached copies of pages from “The UK Air Pilot” 1936 edition which gives details of the lighting arrangements in place at that time.

Floodlights around the boundary, neon lights marking the main landing strip and a Chance Air Light on Hangar No.1

As a child in the 50’s I remember being fascinated by this light, flashing CO into the night. In the mid-60’s, I would often climb to the top of the, then defunct, beacon and have my lunch whilst watching the world go by below. For a long time I had the red obstruction light in my garage but it fell off the shelf one day and smashed. Really annoyed me that did.

RB

It’ll be a whole lot harder to achieve than it was in 1967/68 and significantly more expensive. The CAA are very difficult to satisfy since they mounted the goalposts on castoring wheels and at risk of being placarded a ‘DOOMSTER’ again, I’ll be surprised if it happens.

Couldn’t do EK in August but hope to be there for the 70th!

A

Certainly looks like one. And that’s a sad looking Apache in the last pics.

Ignore the DOOMSTERS!

(With apologies to the originator on the ‘558 thread of the red bit above!)

Duty doomster here. How come ‘Peter the Moderator’ can say, you don’t actually need a mid-upper turret and walk away unscathed, and I get ripped to pieces for saying the same thing? Ho hum.

Anyway, just got an invite to the 65th anniversary ‘do’ at EK in August. It’ll be nice to have a look around the old girl again.

Pip pip

DD

Priorities?

Hmmm. With respect, and without wishing to dampen the obvious enthusiasm; if you are going to return ‘The Spirit of Surfer’s Paradise/Guy Gibson/Just Jane’ to flying condition, the availability (or not) of a mid-upper turret must be several thousand line-items down the list of things to worry about.

Will you be posting a list of all the items required to get her back in the air?