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By: - 16th July 2016 at 16:35 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Very nice shots
By: - 16th July 2016 at 16:53 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Agreed, excellent images. I have not seen any of those before.
When you say Swiss archives, do you mean the airline?
Ed
By: - 16th July 2016 at 17:53 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I apologise for interrupting Duggy's thread, but in answer to AirportsEd these pictures (and one of a Mosquito just a few days ago) are from the very big archive held by the Zurich Technical University
Everything from Swissair aircraft to uniforms and even food trolleys! And a lot of visiting aircraft to Zurich and Geneva (Cointrin). Revel in the prewar and just postwar scene!
By: - 16th July 2016 at 20:06 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Yes the photo's come from here - http://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch/#1468695923326_1
All in the public domain, unless verified.
Probably already in "Flicker" :highly_amused:
By: - 16th July 2016 at 20:41 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Slight tangent while we have Laurence Garey's attention.... Geneva-Cointrin is one possible location for the following linked photo of EC-AGC Northrop and Short Scylla G-ACJJ (Spanish peace negotiations 1938) but I don't think it matches ...maybe a Swiss military base or in France...any ideas? http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/hb0AAOSwhOVXdDry/s-l1600.jpg
By: - 16th July 2016 at 21:30 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Some great shots and an amazing archive. Interesting to see what looks like a USAF B-17 in one shot. Nice shot of the Swiss Twin Pioneer in the archive. Assuming HCA was with Skyways when these were taken its in a short window from 6/11/46 to its accident just over a month later. However it could have been doing some demos at Geneva while under company ownership as there seem to be no other markings on her.
If only the London airprots had a similar archive!
By: - 17th July 2016 at 09:11 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Longshot: it doesn't look like Geneva. The hard standing isn't right, even for that time. Also the countryside is wrong: there would be the Jura mountains in the middle ground at Geneva (as in the Lancastrian pictures). The two towers are not familiar either. Could it be Spain somewhere?
By: - 17th July 2016 at 09:54 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Farnboroughrob: Several B-17s crashed or force landed in Switzerland during WWII, but unlike the Mosquito were not pressed into Swiss service! The Twin Pioneer was still at Sion last time I was there in May 2015, without its wings.
By: - 17th July 2016 at 13:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
That being said, longshot, I suppose the hard standing is similar to that in the Lancastrian photos, and the Jura could be shrouded in mist. But the towers are a puzzle, so I'll try to look further.
By: - 17th July 2016 at 13:58 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Indeed, I was wrong. There WERE two towers at Cointrin. So your photo is likely to have been taken there.
http://viewer.e-pics.ethz.ch/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/index2.php?id=ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Ans_05470-002-AL
By: - 17th July 2016 at 17:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I asked the right man!!...thanks, Laurence...maybe they were taken down in post -war expansion.
By: - 17th July 2016 at 18:07 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
They were there in 1935. Soon after, the first hard runway was laid, and I suppose they got in the way. Until a couple of years ago there were two similar radio towers a bit further out just off the ILS 23 at Gland (NDB "GLA"), but they were spectacularly dynamited.
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By: Duggy - 16th July 2016 at 16:29
While going through the Swiss archives, I came across these wonderful shots taken at Genf-Cointrin.
She was destroyed by fire on the ground whilst parked at Dunsford,Sunday 8 December 1946.
:)