Post by acklington on Jan 1, 2015 1:13:41 GMT 1
Thanks for looking and taking part, and 'mb' takes the winner's prize this year. His prize is to be excused next year! I've now added the answers in red font - hope this works - I completely mucked it up last night after an hour & half of work - doh!
Bit of a change of format this year, with the older of my photos in PART 1, and the quite modern photos in PART 2.
Also, the aircraft serials & reggies have not been erased because it would greatly reduce the interest of the photos.
So if you wish you could look them up in your reference books / the internet.
But you might prefer to view them as I first did - walking in to a hangar or scrapyard, and thinking "What the feck is that?!"
But to make it a bit more difficult the locations / dates are not shown, suffice to say that Lasham, Luton, Biggin Hill, Southend, High Wycombe, Cambridge, Oakington, St Athan and Bicester all figure.
PART 1
Photo 1. 10 points. Mew Gull G-AEXF at High Wycombe in 1968. In its 'raised cockpit' configuration, but after this crash it was restored to flight in the original Alex Henshaw racing profile.
Photo 2. 10 points Fairchild Argus G-AJOZ at Southend for the embryonic museum. The wings were from G-AJPI, but that is now flying again, so all mixed up!
Photo 3. 10 points. Airspeed Ambassador G-AMAF at Luton circa 1967, with Britannia G-ANBF behind.
Photo 4. 10 points. Also at Luton, in 1970, Britannia Airways Britannia G-ANBJ being broken up.
Photo 5. 5 points for type, 10 points for exact airframe. Yes, correctly identified as Lancaster G-ASXX at Biggin Hill, still in Aeronavale colours. Now restored to NX711 "Just Jane" at East Kirby.
Photo 6. It will never fly, but 50 points for the aviation story, and its in England. This is on the gate of the former RAF Milfield in Northumberland. Still used as a gliding airfield, it was formerly a Typhoon and Tempest OTU, and the two concrete gate posts were made by Italian POWs.
Photo 7. Extras from a "JAWS" film. 5 points. Ex RCAF Sabres in the Lasham scrapyard in 1968.
Photo 8. 10 points and an extra 10 for the exact marks. Sea Fury wings, the TF one from a Mk 10, and the WJ from a FB.11. Both at Lasham in 1969.
Photo 9. 10 points. This is Hastings C.1A TG510 ex 'N' of 242 OCU, on the fire ground at Cambridge in 1969.
Photo 10. 10 points. Valetta C.1 VW200 on the fireground at RAF Oakington in 1969. The fuselage stripe is the yellow and black colours of Signals Command.
Photo 11. 10 points for exact mark. Ejector single seat, four cannon, it must be a Meteor F.8 in the Lasham scrapyard, and identified as WA813.
Photo 12. Two aircraft types, 10 points each. This is the RAF Bicester crashed aircraft compound (the RAF crash investigation unit lived there)in 1970. A Meteor T.7 tail on the left, and Chipmunk T.10 WB552 tail on the right.
Photo 13. Exact mark required for 10 points, and another 20 for the objects on the left of the photo. Bit misleading this one - the Meteor T.7s were built with cannon bays, but no guns. So this is a Meteor T.7 WH215 in the Lasham scrapyard in 1969. As for the objects on the left of the photo, I was hoping that someone would tell me!. I think that they might be vertically mounted engines from Dragonfly helicopters?
Photo 14. Exact mark again for 10 points, and another 20 if you can explain the colour scheme. On the St.Athan dump in 1967, this is Meteor F.8 WK712. It is painted in V-bomber camouflage of grey/green over white, the reason being the RAF Paint School at St.Athan which used various aircraft to practise on. Fortunately the serial was still just readable as 'paint bumps' on the tail.
Photo 15. 10 points. Varsity T.1 WL690, ex 5 FTS, on the fireground at RAF Oakington in 1969.
Photo 16. 10 points, and another 10 for the background. Lasham in 1969 with Sea Hawk FGA.6 WM984 ex 802 Sqdn. The background is all Sea Hawks stacked on their sides, including three all black FRU examples.
Photo 17. 5 points, and extra 10 for the ship. Lasham again in 1969, this Sea Hawk FGA.6 is ex HMS Centaur.
Photo 18. 5 points, and extra 20 if you can explain the colour scheme, and modern connection. Also 20 for the fuselage behind! Sea Hawk FB.3 (?) at Lasham in 1968. The original colour scheme was dark sea gray over sky with a high paint demarkation line. Subsequently repainted (poorly) in dark sea gray over white with a mid demarkation line. The aircraft is '189' of 800 Sqdn, and the RN Historic Flight's Sea Hawk currently flies as '188' of the same Sqdn. I'm struggling with the fuselage behind. I think it is a single seat Hunter with the wings chopped off, and I'm basing this purely on the camouflage pattern.
Photo 19. Four aircraft types, 10 points each. Bister crashed aircraft compound again, c 1970. From the left is a Meteor NF(T).14, then Javelin FAW.5 XA701, then the Meteor's wing (I really wish that I had crawled underneath this wing to identify it!), then Chipmunk T.10 WB552 tail, and finally a Canberra tailplane upside down.
Photo 20. 5 points, and 10 for the ship. Another Lasham Sea Hawk FGA.6 XE461, this time ex HMS Albion.
Photo 21. 10 points, and honestly I kept both hands on the wheel! [It was the M1 a long time ago.] This roadrunner on the M1 near Watford in 1971 is the RN travelling exhibit, Whirlwind HAS.7 XM660.
Photo 22. 20 points, and the location was France. Tricky this one, but was correctly identified - well done! It is a P-51D Mustang, displayed as found, at the Le Bourget Museum. Clues include the six-gun wing bays, the Packard Merlin engine, and the distinctive canopy line.
Photo 23. 10 points. RAF Abingdon's dump in 1989, with Buccaneer S.2 XT274, and a Canberra B.2 tip tank on the left.
Photo 24. 10 points. Correctly identified as PA-23 Aztec G-AZRG, on the fire ground at IOM c 1996. It has a crude 'three legs' on the fin.
Photo 25. 20 points. This is the interior of Varsity T.1 WF376 ex CFS, on the Bristol Lulsgate fire ground in 1985.
Photo 26. 20 points. Difficult this one, even with most of the reg visible. It is a BN Islander wing from G-AXXG, being roaded out of Bristol Lulsgate in 1985.
Photo 27. 10 points, or 20 for exact mark. A recent 2014 photo from the RCAF restoration workshop in Trenton, Ontario. It is a Canadian built Anson Mk.2, unidentified and being restored from parts rescued from Farm scrapheaps.
Photo 28. 15 points. Yes, correctly identified as a RR Dart engine. It is on HS748 G-ATMI following its engine maintenance fire on the IOM.
Photo 29. 10 points, and 20 for explaining the film colour schemes. These are ex Bristow Wessex helicopters at Weston-super-Mare in 1987. They took part in the Vietnam-era film "Full Metal Jacket", filmed in London Docklands.
Photo 30. 10 points, and another 10 for the filming role. This is Britannia G-AOVS on the fire ground at Luton c 1988. The airline name 'Redcoat' is showing but it was filmed as "Redair" for a TV series, and carried two names, one each side of the nose, to represent two different aircraft. This side shows "Amy".
That's it for PART 1, and Part 2 will be uploaded later. Happy New Year to All.
Bit of a change of format this year, with the older of my photos in PART 1, and the quite modern photos in PART 2.
Also, the aircraft serials & reggies have not been erased because it would greatly reduce the interest of the photos.
So if you wish you could look them up in your reference books / the internet.
But you might prefer to view them as I first did - walking in to a hangar or scrapyard, and thinking "What the feck is that?!"
But to make it a bit more difficult the locations / dates are not shown, suffice to say that Lasham, Luton, Biggin Hill, Southend, High Wycombe, Cambridge, Oakington, St Athan and Bicester all figure.
PART 1
Photo 1. 10 points. Mew Gull G-AEXF at High Wycombe in 1968. In its 'raised cockpit' configuration, but after this crash it was restored to flight in the original Alex Henshaw racing profile.
Photo 2. 10 points Fairchild Argus G-AJOZ at Southend for the embryonic museum. The wings were from G-AJPI, but that is now flying again, so all mixed up!
Photo 3. 10 points. Airspeed Ambassador G-AMAF at Luton circa 1967, with Britannia G-ANBF behind.
Photo 4. 10 points. Also at Luton, in 1970, Britannia Airways Britannia G-ANBJ being broken up.
Photo 5. 5 points for type, 10 points for exact airframe. Yes, correctly identified as Lancaster G-ASXX at Biggin Hill, still in Aeronavale colours. Now restored to NX711 "Just Jane" at East Kirby.
Photo 6. It will never fly, but 50 points for the aviation story, and its in England. This is on the gate of the former RAF Milfield in Northumberland. Still used as a gliding airfield, it was formerly a Typhoon and Tempest OTU, and the two concrete gate posts were made by Italian POWs.
Photo 7. Extras from a "JAWS" film. 5 points. Ex RCAF Sabres in the Lasham scrapyard in 1968.
Photo 8. 10 points and an extra 10 for the exact marks. Sea Fury wings, the TF one from a Mk 10, and the WJ from a FB.11. Both at Lasham in 1969.
Photo 9. 10 points. This is Hastings C.1A TG510 ex 'N' of 242 OCU, on the fire ground at Cambridge in 1969.
Photo 10. 10 points. Valetta C.1 VW200 on the fireground at RAF Oakington in 1969. The fuselage stripe is the yellow and black colours of Signals Command.
Photo 11. 10 points for exact mark. Ejector single seat, four cannon, it must be a Meteor F.8 in the Lasham scrapyard, and identified as WA813.
Photo 12. Two aircraft types, 10 points each. This is the RAF Bicester crashed aircraft compound (the RAF crash investigation unit lived there)in 1970. A Meteor T.7 tail on the left, and Chipmunk T.10 WB552 tail on the right.
Photo 13. Exact mark required for 10 points, and another 20 for the objects on the left of the photo. Bit misleading this one - the Meteor T.7s were built with cannon bays, but no guns. So this is a Meteor T.7 WH215 in the Lasham scrapyard in 1969. As for the objects on the left of the photo, I was hoping that someone would tell me!. I think that they might be vertically mounted engines from Dragonfly helicopters?
Photo 14. Exact mark again for 10 points, and another 20 if you can explain the colour scheme. On the St.Athan dump in 1967, this is Meteor F.8 WK712. It is painted in V-bomber camouflage of grey/green over white, the reason being the RAF Paint School at St.Athan which used various aircraft to practise on. Fortunately the serial was still just readable as 'paint bumps' on the tail.
Photo 15. 10 points. Varsity T.1 WL690, ex 5 FTS, on the fireground at RAF Oakington in 1969.
Photo 16. 10 points, and another 10 for the background. Lasham in 1969 with Sea Hawk FGA.6 WM984 ex 802 Sqdn. The background is all Sea Hawks stacked on their sides, including three all black FRU examples.
Photo 17. 5 points, and extra 10 for the ship. Lasham again in 1969, this Sea Hawk FGA.6 is ex HMS Centaur.
Photo 18. 5 points, and extra 20 if you can explain the colour scheme, and modern connection. Also 20 for the fuselage behind! Sea Hawk FB.3 (?) at Lasham in 1968. The original colour scheme was dark sea gray over sky with a high paint demarkation line. Subsequently repainted (poorly) in dark sea gray over white with a mid demarkation line. The aircraft is '189' of 800 Sqdn, and the RN Historic Flight's Sea Hawk currently flies as '188' of the same Sqdn. I'm struggling with the fuselage behind. I think it is a single seat Hunter with the wings chopped off, and I'm basing this purely on the camouflage pattern.
Photo 19. Four aircraft types, 10 points each. Bister crashed aircraft compound again, c 1970. From the left is a Meteor NF(T).14, then Javelin FAW.5 XA701, then the Meteor's wing (I really wish that I had crawled underneath this wing to identify it!), then Chipmunk T.10 WB552 tail, and finally a Canberra tailplane upside down.
Photo 20. 5 points, and 10 for the ship. Another Lasham Sea Hawk FGA.6 XE461, this time ex HMS Albion.
Photo 21. 10 points, and honestly I kept both hands on the wheel! [It was the M1 a long time ago.] This roadrunner on the M1 near Watford in 1971 is the RN travelling exhibit, Whirlwind HAS.7 XM660.
Photo 22. 20 points, and the location was France. Tricky this one, but was correctly identified - well done! It is a P-51D Mustang, displayed as found, at the Le Bourget Museum. Clues include the six-gun wing bays, the Packard Merlin engine, and the distinctive canopy line.
Photo 23. 10 points. RAF Abingdon's dump in 1989, with Buccaneer S.2 XT274, and a Canberra B.2 tip tank on the left.
Photo 24. 10 points. Correctly identified as PA-23 Aztec G-AZRG, on the fire ground at IOM c 1996. It has a crude 'three legs' on the fin.
Photo 25. 20 points. This is the interior of Varsity T.1 WF376 ex CFS, on the Bristol Lulsgate fire ground in 1985.
Photo 26. 20 points. Difficult this one, even with most of the reg visible. It is a BN Islander wing from G-AXXG, being roaded out of Bristol Lulsgate in 1985.
Photo 27. 10 points, or 20 for exact mark. A recent 2014 photo from the RCAF restoration workshop in Trenton, Ontario. It is a Canadian built Anson Mk.2, unidentified and being restored from parts rescued from Farm scrapheaps.
Photo 28. 15 points. Yes, correctly identified as a RR Dart engine. It is on HS748 G-ATMI following its engine maintenance fire on the IOM.
Photo 29. 10 points, and 20 for explaining the film colour schemes. These are ex Bristow Wessex helicopters at Weston-super-Mare in 1987. They took part in the Vietnam-era film "Full Metal Jacket", filmed in London Docklands.
Photo 30. 10 points, and another 10 for the filming role. This is Britannia G-AOVS on the fire ground at Luton c 1988. The airline name 'Redcoat' is showing but it was filmed as "Redair" for a TV series, and carried two names, one each side of the nose, to represent two different aircraft. This side shows "Amy".
That's it for PART 1, and Part 2 will be uploaded later. Happy New Year to All.
