Stand corrected; my source was Don Middleton’s Airspeed book which also mentions Hagg as leaving his boatbuilding business in Shepperton on being appointed Technical Director of Airspeed after Hessal Tiltman’s departure.

Presumably he was still OK with de Havilland’s therefore. What happened to him after Airspeed?

He seems to have ended up with a pretty low profile. He’s mentioned a bit in the various Airspeed books I have but no real insights

I’ve just finished Martin Sharp’s deeply dull de Havilland book with hardly a mention of him. Is he in any of the better de Havilland tomes?

Arm Waver, you might well be right. I still can’t get to grips with all the light aircraft types of the period and guessing what a letter is from sliver of its left handside is never going to be spot on.

I’ll go through the log and list all the ?-???E’s and see if that helps – after all a challange is a challange.

BTW nice avatar pic 🙂

Canberra’s Malta 1956

Here’s a snap of a couple of Canberras at Malta in 1956. They were taken by a Chuck Mäki enroute with the USAF to Turkey with, as here says, a very cheap camera brought in Triploi. The snap is from inside BEA Ambassador G-ALZY. Chuck was kind enough to send me a copy print from which this is a scan.

His journey is chronicled at http://www.merhabaturkey.com/1MAKICindex.html.

His DC-3 pics are at http://www.centercomp.com/cgi-bin/dc3/gallery?706

I’ve enlarged and enhanced as much as I dare.

Anyone know more info of unit and type?

I’ve just lost my long, detailed and dull reasoned reply so here’s the short version…

I’ve gone through my dad’s log again and the only aircraft with a reg that looks right on a suitable aircraft eg not a York like G-AGJE, is G-AIUE. If it is this aircraft, then it crash in 1962 (http://members.aol.com/warwicaero/milesaircraft/aircraft/m14pt1.html).