Is it some trick of the imaging, or is the inboard corner of the port wing flap looking more than a bit dog-eared?
Here, incorrectly described as a crash on take-off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOamnWpLtO8
My account (Wide Body by Clive Irving, Hodder & Stoughton 1993) has it that Dutch roll in the B-47 was eliminated with a yaw damper. The damper was still there in the early Dutch roll accidents in the 707’s life, when the ventral fin and other aerodynamic fixes were introduced as well.
The interim accident report puts it down to catastrophic gearbox failure followed by detachment of the rotor head and a blade strike on the tail boom. Read behind the technical information and it sounds a nightmare, though mercifully short for those involved, RIP.
http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources/G-REDL%20-%20Initial%20AAIB%20Report.pdf
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Think of how the fortunes of the Bristol Fighter were transformed in WW1 once the drivers shook off the ‘two-seater’ mentality and used the thing aggressively.
Moggy
OK, drifting off topic, but here goes. There’s a little cameo in one of the early Biggles books, when W E Johns was either writing from first-hand experience or from someone he knew, of the gunner in a German two-seater beating the pilot over the head with an empty machine gun magazine.
Seems that in the Imperial German Air Force the gunner usually outranked the pilot, whose task was that of an underling with the lowly job of pointing the contraption in the right direction.
Can anyone offer some more elucidation?
Going back to the main topic, from what I’ve read it’s got to be Lerwick or Botha, certainly among those that actually saw squadron service.
BCAL managed to break one in a heavy landing at Gatwick… photo of cracked fuselage on airliners.net somewhere
That was the prototype G-ARTA. If I remember rightly spoilers were deployed prematurely at the end of a positioning flight and she dropped the last few feet like a stone.
After she was duly dismantled, various components were mounted on blocks of wood and sold off for charity. I’ve got one of them somewhere in the house…must dig it up.
Gossip had it that a BCAL staff member was in the jump seat on his first-ever flight. His inquiry as the dust settled as to whether all landings were like that was met with an, erm, less than polite response. Understandable in the circumstances, but can anyone confirm/deny?
I can’t remember what it was or what happened to it, was it unique?
It’s the one and only Conroy Skymonster. There was a thread on it a while ago, not updated for 18 months or so.
At the risk of either letting this thread drift, or reviving the original Skymonster thread, do I take it the beast was eventually chopped?
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=46041&highlight=conroy
Are you absolutely sure it’s not German? Heinkel He-115C seems pretty close.
Don’t think so. This one looks as if it’s got a fixed undercarriage, and the cockpit’s too far forward.
This is a long way from being a good quality photograph, but here she is in about 1966, caught on long-faded Kodachrome.
There was a thread on this a while ago, and the general consensus was that TSR-2 would probably have been Eagle, P1154 Harrier and F-111K Merlin.
In similar vein, were any names kicked around for the HS681, seeing as serials were allocated? (XT261 to XT266). And were any serials allocated for P1154?
I believe the TSR-2 left a fair old trail of smoke behind it.
Agree with what’s been said about F-104s, and you add F100s to that list in my memory.
Cambrian One-Elevens were regular visitors to Liverpool in the early 1970s, white and grey with a red cheatline. Don’t know if this is near enough.
This is G-AVOE in September 1970.
This isn’t the picture I had in mind, but here’s the turret at Duxford in July 1978. Apologies for the indifferent quality – my trusty Spotmatic wasn’t so trusty that day as the meter calibration had gone out of adjustment, and I’ve just done a very quick scan with a minimum of tweaking.
Yes, Folly Lane, that’s right. George Howard & Co, just on the west side of the railway line.
It was many years ago, but I think I’d have clocked any recognisable Wyvern bits and pieces. I don’t recall large chunks of B17 apart from the ball turret, either.
Still trying to track down the photographs!
Take me back a bit, that does. In the early 70s I was given access to this yard for one reason or another, and I can still see both the B26 fuselage section and the ball turret in my mind’s eye.
I was a member of the Merseyside Society of Aviation Enthusiasts at the time, and told Phil Butler all about what I’d just seen. He had the right contacts, and the items were duly recovered.
Can’t remember for the life of me exactly what it was called or exactly where it was. Presumably somewhere close to Burtonwood and the A49, but that’s only a guess.
I might be able to dig up some photographs, but it depends on my filing system!