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Post by a30yoyo on Mar 24, 2015 20:25:04 GMT
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Post by PB on Mar 24, 2015 21:32:34 GMT
How nice it would be to see a Viscount back in the air regardless of how many engines it might have.. I have a clear recollection from my early youth of the spectacle of a jet powered Viking flying over my home. The Nene Viking. www.aviastar.org/air/england/vickers_neneviking.phpThe fifties were adventurous times!! PB
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Post by flyboy on Mar 25, 2015 9:20:50 GMT
Morning Peter,
Looking at the mighty Argosy photos reminded me of looking out of my office window in the terminal building to see a vast area of 3x Argosy wings stretching right across the apron to the grass beyond. Fantastic sight. I wonder if you realised that the smartly dressed young feller with the bats in the sixth photo, foreground, is I believe, non other than Alan Lathan who only recently signed up as a member of this new forum. Like the rest of us he hasn't changed at all(!) and holds a wealth of Blackbushe information. Stuart.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2015 16:26:50 GMT
During my life I have flown in many aeroplanes. I'm afraid the Argosy rates as one of the worse. Bahrain to Aden, 1967. Cargo, plus about a dozen passengers, all facing backwards, noisy, cold, vibrations. No in flight service, well it was a trooping flight. No direct routings due to Saudi airspace restrictions added an hour to our flight. Never been so glad to be in Aden, and that's some statement because it was the worse place on earth to be in at that time.
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Post by chevvron on Mar 26, 2015 14:08:11 GMT
My first ever flight was in Argosy XP447 from Benson in 1962 as an ATC cadet. 2 hours circuit bashing and I was puking for at least half that time!!
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Post by chevvron on Mar 30, 2015 14:31:49 GMT
Re the 'disappearing' Lancaster when DA sold out to BCA. When Doug's son (Peter?) visited Fairoaks a couple of years ago, (came up to pay a landing fee and casually happened to mention his father used to own the airport!) he said he was still running the museum in Florida, so maybe the Lanc is there.
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Post by Jeff on Mar 30, 2015 15:31:26 GMT
Re the 'disappearing' Lancaster when DA sold out to BCA. When Doug's son (Kenneth?) visited Fairoaks a couple of years ago, (came up to pay a landing fee and happened to mention his father used to own the airport!) he said he was still running the museum in Florida, so maybe the Lanc is there. From Wiki Another Canadian Lancaster, KB994, that had survived only as a fuselage, was sourced to replace the irreparably damaged parts of KB976. Sadly, Charles Church died in a flying accident soon after and the rebuild was abandoned. The aircraft and its replacement parts were later sold to Doug Arnold, before finally being bought by Kermit Weeks in 1992. KB976 has since been stored at his Fantasy of Flight museum in Florida awaiting restoration.
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Post by PB on Mar 30, 2015 16:48:06 GMT
Thanks for the updates guys, let's hope that Kermit gets her back in shape. That's one Lanc that's getting too many land miles and not enough air miles.
Doug's sons that I knew were Peter and David...
PB
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Post by A30yoy0 on Apr 2, 2015 10:02:11 GMT
The Wikipedia text under the Mercury photo is the robot-translation from the Italian Wikipedia page, so is a good laugh. There is a slightly skimpy English language Wikipedia page that suggests 6 were built, though it invents a Mercury 6, which in Wiki world probably needs disambiguating from the early American Space efforts :-)
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Post by PB on Apr 2, 2015 13:03:06 GMT
Quickest way I could deliver in brief time envelope..No connections with the space race so far as this Miles product is concerned...
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