Excellent find there Steve, thanks!
I’m sure Ansons won’t have carried much in the way of destructive power on a dam.
As I thought, no-one else seems to have heard of the attack/s on the Hindenburg Dam either.
Thanks Mark12.
Was the four bladed prop and six-exhaust-per-side engine on AR213 a postwar modification in the warbirds era? Or was it one of the rear Mk. I’s that got a mid-life upgrade during the war?
Oh right, it looks like you’re correct Zak.
What about former ZK-YAK which was built for and flew with the Alpine Fighter Collection for years, and then went to Aussie to be impounded, is that on your list? I think it recently was released from its impounding.
By the complete lack of any response, I am guessing no-one made a film about the remarkable rejuvenation of the production line of the Yaks then…
ErrolC said:
Some fresh photos from Dave Homewood – engines on!
It should be said that the starboard engine is a blank engine, nit the one intended to fly on the aircraft. It’s there so the guys can fit the cowls that are being built at the moment. The port engine is installed.
ZK-ADV is in fact a non-flying replica of the one and only Tui Sport, which was a local design based somewhat on the Lincoln Sport but different.
Thanks. I’d not seen either before. I am wondering if that photo of Sir Ralph was from when he made a film about the Fleet Air Arm called The Volunteer, released in 1944, as the chap next to him seems to be a cameraman. That film is watchable online on the BFI site but sadly will not play here in New Zealand.
I guess that S/Ldr Addams may well have worked with Arthur Marsden OBE, who had a key role in the purchase of US and Canadian-sourced aircraft for Britain. You can read about him here on my website:
http://www.cambridgeairforce.org.nz/Albert_Marsden.html
Very good documentary. I’d seen something on these Mustangs before but not as detailed as this film. It’s great they filmed everything as it happened.
The write up is only the teaser Bill, click the link and you can listen to Hugh tell his story in his own words.
I would have thought with the little info out there on RAF B-25 Mitchells, and also on the RAF Comms units flying around the front lines in Europe, that this episode might have generated some interest here. But I guess not.
From the BBC Genome site:
BBC2 7 September 1980, 20.45hrs (Repeated, BBC1 – 9 November 1980, 15.35hrs and then BBC1 4 August 1983, 15.30hrs)
Missing
An Inside Story documentary
On 7 September 1940 Hurricanes of 257 Squadron took off from Martlesham Heath , Suffolk, to intercept a large wave of enemy bombers over the Thames estuary, heading towards London on what turned out to be the first day of the London Blitz. Among those lost in the battle was Flt-Lt H. R. A. Beresford. No one saw him shot down. He was posted as ‘ missing ‘ until September 1979 when the wreckage of a fighter was found … This documentary pieces together the sad story of Beresford’s last mission, finally concluded 40 years after the Battle of Britain.
An outstanding programme of the weekend … last night’s haunting, perceptive and eye-opening Inside Story.
(THE DAILY TELEGRAPH)
The film built impressively into an attack on the ‘ bogus romantic cult’ of the fighter pilot. (SUNDAY TIMES)
Producer ROGER MILLS Director PETER GORDON