Warbird Information Exchange

Hi all
Hear is a bunch of pictures taken at Changi in Singapore during 1960-62 by my father. Sorry about the quality they were taken on a 1950’s vintage point and shoot, copied onto slides by me and then scanned! I think they are interesting just the same.

















Hope they are interesting

Rgds Cking

Got any more ?

I've got some airliners that I was going to post on another forum. Will they do?

Rgds Cking

Neat photo's!

What are the aircraft in picture #2? I was thinking that they are DC3's/C-47's, but look larger than that.

Thanks for sharing'em.

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David
1953 M38A1 jeep owner
& Student Pilot soloed 09/09/06
USAF 1984-1986

The two 'tail draggers' in the foreground are Handley-Page Hastings.

The aircraft in the background with the high tail is a Blackburn Beverley.

Thanks!

Time now to do some web-surfing to learn more about them.

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David
1953 M38A1 jeep owner
& Student Pilot soloed 09/09/06
USAF 1984-1986

Cking..Great photos...brings back memories.

We lived in Changi and Seletar in 60, 61 and 62. My father was flight crew on the Beverley, and I can remember sitting in the boom on a couple of flights.

My father never forgave Hendon when they scrapped "his" Beverley

Julian

My old Dad said this about this Beverley




“The Beverley with the staging by the left i/b was if I recall correctly was XM104.

We changed that engine seven times before we got a good one.

Each test flight within a few minutes the new engine failed, once the aircraft had bareley left the runway and was about 200 feet up, I actually saw it auto feather with clouds of smoke from the. exhausts.

It was said that a truck was waiting at the Bristol engine works for one to come off test. It was taken directly to R A F Lynham (spelling ?), loaded on a Britannia and flown out to R A F Changi.
When unloaded it was brought to where the aircraft is parked. When installed, runs O K, it lasted about nine minutes on test flight.

It turned out that the oil spec had been changed and the Centaurus, being a sleeve valve type, took a dim view of this and in each case the Master cylinder sleeve valve seized and sheared the drive crank.

Oddly enough the other engines on the fleet ( four aircraft) seemed to be as O K as they ever where so it had to be something to do with perhaps mods at the Bristol Factory.

It was said that if filled with fuel and oil it would run out of oil before the fuel was exhausted even with two tanks holding about 100 gallons in the wing center section that could be hand pumped to the individual engine tanks.

Another version was the aircraft was good for Old Navigators, the could navigate out and follow the oil slick back ))”

I too believe that the RAFM committed a crime when they cut up their Bev

Rgds Cking