By: longshot
- 10th March 2009 at 20:21Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
PBY transport conversion
There were quite a few, but its still 'less common' :)
link is to a set of Life pics of N5593V in Saudi around the time it got shot up and abandoned.... it was one of the last aircraft out of Croydon in 1959
By: Scouse
- 10th March 2009 at 20:39Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I can't remember what it was or what happened to it, was it unique?
It's the one and only Conroy Skymonster. There was a thread on it a while ago, not updated for 18 months or so.
At the risk of either letting this thread drift, or reviving the original Skymonster thread, do I take it the beast was eventually chopped? http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=46041&highlight=conroy
By: Stony
- 11th March 2009 at 11:41Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
What is that . . ?! Must be Russian?
Nope! Even de russians don't make them that ugly:D.
Only the French could come up with something like that:diablo:.
It's an Hurel-Dubois HD-34. About eight of the beasts were build.
Three are still around.
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By: Pete Truman
- 11th March 2009 at 12:16Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Does this count, I took this of it taking off from Stansted, 1980's, I can't recall the exact date, only the extremely long walk through the traffic jams to see it.
Incidentally, I gather that the CL-44 is still at Bournemouth without it's engines, well it was last November, anyone know any different.
By: longshot
- 11th March 2009 at 13:37Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
747 carrying Space Shuttle
Definitely less common in the UK! :) Lucky you to see it!
Does this count, I took this of it taking off from Stansted, 1980's, I can't recall the exact date, only the extremely long walk through the traffic jams to see it.
Incidentally, I gather that the CL-44 is still at Bournemouth without it's engines, well it was last November, anyone know any different.
By: longshot
- 10th April 2009 at 11:56Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
R3D-2 (DC-5) photos from US Library of Congress
Slightly staged exercise shots edited from the 3000pixel+ TIFF downloads you can get from the LoC.....a type ordered then cancelled by British Airways Ltd as WWII broke out, which resulted in BOAC receiving the rather prettier DH Flamingo which unfortunately had a nasty aerodynamic fault which was never cured and caused several fatal crashes...
By: alertken
- 10th April 2009 at 13:28Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
A.E.Hagg did (even prettier) wooden Albatross and metal Flamingo before moving to Airspeed, there doing Ambassador, after a flirtation to resurrect Flamingo/Hertfordshire. B.Gunston, at Flight normally supportive of UK types, has this in Back to the Drawing Board, A’life,96,P88: DH's “proud belief (in their design) infallibility was to lead (to) repeated troubles with almost every (design after A.E.H’s D.H.91 Albatross, the first) of many to come ‘unglued’”.
By: longshot
- 10th April 2009 at 18:06Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Tupolev early transports
Photos attached of ANT-42 akaTB-7 aka Pe-8 at RAF Pealing 1942, ANT-20 (from flightglobal image of the day blog 2008) and TB-3 (from clashmaker photostream on flickr -not strictly transport but heyho!)....the TB-7 flew Molotov to Scotland and the US in 1942/1943....after a dummy-run for the Scotland trips one Russian pilot from the TB-7 was killed in an RAF Flamingo crash in Yorkshire being flown back from a London visit. (The TB-7 was a bomber but one was converted properly to transport Stalin, I believe)
By: longshot
- 10th April 2009 at 18:16Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
DH Flamingo
A.E.Hagg did (even prettier) wooden Albatross and metal Flamingo before moving to Airspeed, there doing Ambassador, after a flirtation to resurrect Flamingo/Hertfordshire. B.Gunston, at Flight normally supportive of UK types, has this in Back to the Drawing Board, A’life,96,P88: DH's “proud belief (in their design) infallibility was to lead (to) repeated troubles with almost every (design after A.E.H’s D.H.91 Albatross, the first) of many to come ‘unglued’”.
By: longshot
- 13th April 2009 at 20:07Permalink- Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Hanno....also a sad end
Destroyed in a gale at Whitchurch in 1940....full screen scan available by searching Aviation Weather Stations source:life in google images. Hanno was the subject of several photos in Palestine in the Matson collection/Library of Congress online
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By: longshot - 10th March 2009 at 20:15 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Hurel Dubois
I was amazed to see one at Fairford a decade ago!
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By: longshot - 10th March 2009 at 20:21 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
PBY transport conversion
There were quite a few, but its still 'less common' :)
link is to a set of Life pics of N5593V in Saudi around the time it got shot up and abandoned.... it was one of the last aircraft out of Croydon in 1959
http://images.google.com/images?q=Kendall+David+Lees&q=source%3Alife
and there's an earlier PBY set in the Life archive called 'Flying Yacht'
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By: Scouse - 10th March 2009 at 20:39 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
It's the one and only Conroy Skymonster. There was a thread on it a while ago, not updated for 18 months or so.
At the risk of either letting this thread drift, or reviving the original Skymonster thread, do I take it the beast was eventually chopped?
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=46041&highlight=conroy
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By: longshot - 10th March 2009 at 22:13 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
CL-44-O in the Seventies
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1003596/
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1006492/
Jack Conroy had been involved with the Aero Spacelines Guppy conversions and later made a Turbo-DC-3 conversion
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By: Jesper - 11th March 2009 at 09:51 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
What is that . . ?! Must be Russian?
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By: Stony - 11th March 2009 at 11:41 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Nope! Even de russians don't make them that ugly:D.
Only the French could come up with something like that:diablo:.
It's an Hurel-Dubois HD-34. About eight of the beasts were build.
Three are still around.
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By: Pete Truman - 11th March 2009 at 12:16 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Does this count, I took this of it taking off from Stansted, 1980's, I can't recall the exact date, only the extremely long walk through the traffic jams to see it.
Incidentally, I gather that the CL-44 is still at Bournemouth without it's engines, well it was last November, anyone know any different.
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By: jetprov - 11th March 2009 at 12:35 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
G-ATEL Accountant SBAC 1957
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By: Jesper - 11th March 2009 at 12:49 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
:D Thanks for enlightening me, Stony :D
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By: longshot - 11th March 2009 at 13:37 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
747 carrying Space Shuttle
Definitely less common in the UK! :) Lucky you to see it!
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By: longshot - 10th April 2009 at 11:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
R3D-2 (DC-5) photos from US Library of Congress
Slightly staged exercise shots edited from the 3000pixel+ TIFF downloads you can get from the LoC.....a type ordered then cancelled by British Airways Ltd as WWII broke out, which resulted in BOAC receiving the rather prettier DH Flamingo which unfortunately had a nasty aerodynamic fault which was never cured and caused several fatal crashes...
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By: alertken - 10th April 2009 at 13:28 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
A.E.Hagg did (even prettier) wooden Albatross and metal Flamingo before moving to Airspeed, there doing Ambassador, after a flirtation to resurrect Flamingo/Hertfordshire. B.Gunston, at Flight normally supportive of UK types, has this in Back to the Drawing Board, A’life,96,P88: DH's “proud belief (in their design) infallibility was to lead (to) repeated troubles with almost every (design after A.E.H’s D.H.91 Albatross, the first) of many to come ‘unglued’”.
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By: longshot - 10th April 2009 at 18:06 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Tupolev early transports
Photos attached of ANT-42 akaTB-7 aka Pe-8 at RAF Pealing 1942, ANT-20 (from flightglobal image of the day blog 2008) and TB-3 (from clashmaker photostream on flickr -not strictly transport but heyho!)....the TB-7 flew Molotov to Scotland and the US in 1942/1943....after a dummy-run for the Scotland trips one Russian pilot from the TB-7 was killed in an RAF Flamingo crash in Yorkshire being flown back from a London visit. (The TB-7 was a bomber but one was converted properly to transport Stalin, I believe)
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By: longshot - 10th April 2009 at 18:16 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
DH Flamingo
The long lost Flamingo site by CT Young is back online, alertken
http://uk.geocities.com/dh95flamingo/index.html
...part dismantled Flamingo at Redhill a sample(attached)
Hagg designed the Napier-Heston 'racer', too, I believe....I'll look out a pic of the Albatross with a broken back
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By: longshot - 13th April 2009 at 20:07 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Hanno....also a sad end
Destroyed in a gale at Whitchurch in 1940....full screen scan available by searching Aviation Weather Stations source:life in google images. Hanno was the subject of several photos in Palestine in the Matson collection/Library of Congress online