If its the part-work I think it is then I wrote the section on the Vickers Vedette flying boat for it! I think it may have later been republished as a coffee table type of hard-back. I think Phil Jarrett may have asked me for the piece … maybe it was a different part-work but it would have been early 1970s.

Blimey … when did I get so old … or maybe I was just very young 🙂

As a toddler I remember having the airfield at Hatfield pointed out to me a few days after VE day. All I remember now is that there was a line of white painted aircraft which may have been Wellingtons. Any ideas anyone? I realise just what a longshot this is!!
Jim

I remember Alan Hall telling me he’d seen a PBY Privateer at Hatfield around that time :confused:

Henley or High Post?

If you have a look at the post on BoB pilots in the film you’ll see I posed the same question about the location of the “prototype” roll-out!

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=89054

The hangar is a dead-ringer for the one at Henley but I’ve seen others of the interior of High Post which shows identical windows.

The High Post hangar still stands:

http://worldwar2airfields.fotopic.net/p55373133.html

I don’t know if the Henley hangar is still there?

IIRC the Vulcan was “borrowed” from Halton and immersed in a tank on the James Bond set at Pinewood. If you look closely you will see that the vertical tail is missing. I’m sure somebody knows the serial.

G-AMMS

Look behind you guvnor!

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=88959

Sorry for the minor thread creep, but just had a look at Wikipedia page for the Snargasher, which led me on to the R.S.3 / R.S.4 Desford. States there that it was in flyable condition until 1973, but I was under the impression that it was still airworthy at Strathallan until later then that…. Can anyone confirm or deny ?

Definitely airworthy at Strathallan – I have an air-to-air by D Richardson

I don’t know if this is any help?

G-ALJF at Biggin Hill about 30 years ago:

With the establishment of civil aviation after WWI the first regulations stated that the registration letters were to be in black and displayed on a white panel – fuselage sides, wings upper & lower, with the national identity letter on the vertical tail.

By the mid 1920’s the white panels were no longer required and the letter on the tail was dispensed with, wings still carried the reg’n full span upper & lower.

By the mid 1930s the requirement for black (or silver) lettering was still there but being ignored in many cases as manufacturers used colours to match the colour scheme of the aircraft. The upper wing markings were often dispensed with (although technically still required).

In the early post WW2 era manufacturers (and those converting ex-military a/c) tended to follow the 1930’s standards with full-span lettering but by 1947 Miles Aircraft and de Havilland were using the lower port and the upper starboard wings for relatively small registration letters. By the 1950’s most a/c no longer carried the upper starboard letters.

(I’ll post some photos when I have a chance to scan some)