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Post by mickywest on Aug 30, 2020 14:22:48 GMT
Feedback on Feedback 'Fouga Magisters' p211 The editors note in Dave Hughes letter correctly identifies N9540C as a YC-97 but the photo featured was taken at Heathrow North from Frank Hudsons office window above the BOAC cargo shed 02APR1960 as also featured at top air-britain.freeforums.net/thread/275/boeing-stratocruiser-variants-modifications-guppies?page=1&scrollTo=2388 Frank's photograph of N9540C from the other side shows the BOAC cargo shed by the perimeter road chicane bend  There was an article by Willis H Kennedy in Air Classics about flying 'The Beast' (YC-97 N9540C) to Katanga with the Magisters |
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Post by mickywest on Aug 30, 2020 14:25:07 GMT
'The Beast' YC-97 article contd |
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Post by mickywest on Aug 31, 2020 22:19:09 GMT
Feedback on Grapple Feedback Lawrence Hole's Flickr photos from his Grapple detachment www.flickr.com/photos/63336539@N02/ note the 'contemporary' styled chapel, the walls survived for several decades but not the corrugated roof Mike Dash's designs 'Travel' and 'Trafalgar Square' for the 'Other Ranks' NAAFI bar (see AvWorld for altered versions as applied)  Designs 'London' and 'Balloons' (for the 'Airmans' NAAFI bar)....may not have been applied?)  And the long, rather industrial building at the rear housed the various NAAFI bars/restaurants, all being sprayed with DDT by the RAF Auster  BRITAIN'S NUCLEAR TEST PROGRAMME: CHRISTMAS ISLAND. © IWM (CT 1963) IWM Non Commercial License |
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Post by mickywest on Sept 4, 2020 15:14:57 GMT
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Post by mickywest on Sept 9, 2020 14:52:45 GMT
Flying to and from 'Grapple' Many National Servicemen got their first airline flight when put on an airliner to the U.S. West Coast, Hawaii then Christmas Island The Qantas round-the-world service was used to carry Grapple servicemen from London to San Francisco (L-1049G Super-G Constellations), photo www.omnibusologist.com The 'local' link to and from Christmas Island to Hawaii was often in an RAF Hastings (Dennis Hobbs)  Hastings TG339 at Hickam AFB which took Mike Dash to Hawaii for a few days leave  Mike Dash's transport back to Christmas Island after leave on Hawaii was Air Charter's Skymaster G-AOXK  View from G-AOXK between Hickam AFB and Christmas Island  |
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Post by mickywest on Sept 10, 2020 15:50:05 GMT
The fully transoceanic Britannia 300 reached service in time to support the later stages of Operation Grapple enabling a through-plane service from Britain to Christmas Island (though not non-stop!) and the charter companies Air Charter and British Commonwealth Air Navigation set to work with their 6-abreast high density seating equipped Britannias ( a first use of 6-abreast in the airline world??) Air Charter Britannia landing on Christmas Island (Mike Dash photo)  Homeward bound from Grapple at Vancouver in a British Commonwealth Air Navigation Britannia (Mike Dash photo)  View of the Proteus engines which delayed the introduction of the Britannia so severely limiting it's market penetration (Mike Dash photo)  |
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