Is this the Halifax that crashed near Howden train station, running out of fuel just short of Breighton. If so there is some information in the local pub (The Barnes Wallis). I could get you this information if you wish, or you could contact Elvington as this is where the info comes from.

A bit off-topic I now but we’ve past that plave loads of times and nver imbibed! Now you’ve sadi that it might be worth dropping in on the way home from Breighton in September! Out of interest, what IS the connection with Wallis here?

Chris

some more for Daz

Since everyone else is posting up their photos, thought I’d join the party!

Here’s a few of the Buchon at Breighton just before she was allowed to fly publicly: http://aviationpages.fotopic.net/c982936_145.html

The weekend after Legends, she was back at home in Yorkshire. A superb performance in partnership with MH434 in a very tight two ship display:
http://aviationpages.fotopic.net/c1030027_169.html

Chris

Dave, this might be worth trying to find ‘The Royal Air Force Over Texas’ by Tom Killebrew http://web2.unt.edu/untpress/catalog/detail.cfm?ID=198

And this article is a quick potted history (6 pages).
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3901/is_200006/ai_n8908270

Chris

Does anyone know anything about this place. Came across it on multimap a while ago. Appears to be a (fairly pristine looking) east-west concrete runway in the middle of nowhere. One public road nearby appears as if it probably follows the course of former subsidiary runway and theres a bit of track that could have been peri-track and some turnings at the end of the runway. It stood out as odd in that its in hte middle of nowhere, there appear to be no buildings and someones gone to great trouble to obliterate all almost trace of peritrack, dispersals and buildings and yet the main runway looks pretty good? :confused:

Er, I’d have a look at this is I were you – myself and 1Group were there last Saturday: http://airfieldarchaeology.fotopic.net/c1043602.html

Chris

Sorry for being a pedant cdp206, but the throttle box in your photos is not from a Wellington.

It looks post war to me.

Excuse – I didn’t know better! Thanks for pointing it out though. At the time though it was lumped together with all of the other Wellington parts in Nissen hut where it was bing displayed. It’s not a good photo anyway!

Chris

LOL!

There is a story, which may be just a rural myth, of an aircraft, allegedly a Wimpey which crashed into a bog near an airfield in Yorkshire during the war. Every so often bog gasses would cause the aircraft to rise to the surface, emit loud parping noises and then sink again.

My suspicion is it’s a nice story.

Alledgedly near Lindholme, on Thorne Moor. Spooky! 😮

Chris

As the tailsection is looking now in the garden at Moreton-in-the-marsh

Cees

Oh my God! What’s it doing in a garden! I knew L7775 had been split up but, well……..

It did have so much potential, didn’t it? I wonder what did happen to that rear turret after ‘word’ were alledgedly had. At the time, it looked marvelous and was largely well looked after. Luckily, I wan’t privvy the internal ‘politics’. You’re right HP, it does happen all too often much to detriment of the project. Everyone looses out, including the poor airframe. Glad you liked the photos though.

Chris

Wellington at Firbeck

As promised in my previous post (#15), I’ve found the photos of the wings and other parts of the Wellington now at EK. It’s Wellington 1A L7775 (20 OTU), which crashed on 23 October 1940 near Braemar, Scotland. The aircraft was recovered in 1982. These photos I took of it date from 1988 and 1989, whilst it was on display at the South Yorkshire Avaition Society Museum at Firbeck, near Maltby. I won’t say ‘enjoy’, given the subject of another thread which is currently running!

Chris