Nice shots Dreyerce , is there a reason for the large pool of water in front of the Shack at the end of the ground run sequence?!

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Perhaps the marshaller in the other two photos pi**ed himself when he thought the Shack was going to jump the chocks!;)

I’m coming into this a bit late, but here goes. I worked for Aviation Traders in the 1960s, the firm being part of the Air Holdings empire, which also included British United (and its Air Ferries offshoot). So, we were responsible for servcing both the B.170s and Carvairs at Lydd and Southend. The Southend-Ostend route was formally a joint operation with SABENA, but as the later did not actually contribute any aircraft, one of the BUA Superfreieghters was always painted in SABENA livery and used as far as possible on that route. G-APAV, the 212th and last B.170 built, was one of four so painted. Lacking the correct SABENA blue, it was painted at Southend in the ‘best match’ Dulux shade that we could find! Hence, the blue does not quite match the official SABENA colour. Whther the previous three aircraft were also painted with Dulux colour I cannot say.

I have a rather nice photo of G-APAV lifting out of Southend in volume 1 of the second edition of A J Jackson’s ‘British Civil Aircraft Since 1919′, pubvlished by Putnam qwuite some years’ ago now. I will try and locate it in my collection and put it up here shortly.

Very interesting John, I always wondered why it was a lighter blue. Here are a couple of Kodachrome slides in my collection I have scanned taken at Southend in August 1964.

Some pictures from when my step dad was on HMS Tracker. I will add some more of a Couple of Swordfish mishaps plus what looks like an attack on a U Boat

Well well, a couple of these look familiar Keith! Good to see the whole set.;)

Many thanks for a great thread and superb set of pics. This must be the most immaculately restored Lightning existing today? Now a query?
When 458 was initially restored to this high standard, the port side was painted in the beautiful and authentic red and white colours of 226 OCU which very few people got to see before it was repainted into 92 Squadron’s colours. Although still very nice, I do feel it is a shame that this detracted from the authenticity of the machine, in view that 92 Squadron never operated a T.5, only a T.4. What was the reasoning behind this repaint, as I would have loved to have seen the 226 OCU scheme which was accurate for a T5?

Kenneth More’s autobiography “More or less”. Brilliant! 😉

Hi all,

DH60M Moth ZK-AEJ arrives in the U.K. on July 27.
It will take up it’s old marks G-AAXG and be based at Goodwood.
Once Simon obtains his license he will move the Moth to Annemasse.

Cheers,
Tim

Wonderful news, hope to see her at the DH Moth Meet at Halton next year>
BTW, where on earth is ‘Annemasse’?

Might I draw your attention to Peter’s comments a few posts above…

…ooooh, dangerous ground, pitching the moderators against eachother!:rolleyes:

I regret it is now confirmed that the casualty was well known and liked pilot John Fairey

Moggy

This is very sad. I have known John for about 40 years, from when he was the owner of Spitfire G-AIDN and is the son of Sir Richard Fairey, founder of Fairey Aviation. A gentleman if ever there was one.

R.I.P – my thoughts are with his family.