Warbird Information Exchange

I thought the first 109 was a reversed image as well, but it's not, the intake on the 109 is always on the port side. It's actually yet another captured aircraft afflicted with the bodge-job replacement swastika.

Lots of other interesting stuff, maybe comment later. However the 1938 Empire Air Day shot inside the shed is most probably RAF Cardington, one of the two sheds for the R100 and R101 airships, though it's barrage balloons in there in the shot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Cardington


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Regards,

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James K

"Switch on the underwater landing lights"
Emilio Largo, Thunderball.

www.VintageAeroWriter.com

Haha, yes caught myself after the fact on that one, corrected in an edit.

cheers

greg v.

Wild! Little Hangar on the Prairie?

More seriously, let's see what we can do with these:


The (sole) Reid and Sigrist R.S.4 Bobsleigh. Modefied for prone pilot trials, with a safty pilot in the normal position. This still survives in the UK.



Left - Heinkel 'Blitz', mostly Junkers Ju 86 bombers and a sole Dornier Do 11 in the rear centre. The Ju 86 was one of the few successful operational Diesel-engined aircraft; sometimes confusingly known as a 'heavy oil' engine.


Hawker Harts.


An interesting array - Clockwise from top left: Armstrong Whitworth Whitley wingtip; Westland Wapiti, mystery airship gondola?, Avro Rota or Cierva C-30; Saro Cloud amphibian; Fairey Swordfish; Hawker Hart family member; Fairey Battle; Bristol Blenheim Mk.I; DH Tiger Moth; and (I think) a Miles Magister wingtip and nose. Several barrage balloons and a Blackburn Shark in the middle.

The Cardington airship sheds were used as a barrage balloon depot, which would explain why there were three and a gondola there.


Armstrong Siddeley Tiger-engined Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys.



More interesting than at first I thought - these are (mostly) RNZAF DH 82 Tiger Moths (with the blind flying hoods erected on the closer aircraft, and evidently Kiwi machines by the 'NZ' serial prefix), with DH 94 Moth Minors (behind the Tiger on the right) and an airliner-livery DH 84 Dragon fuselage at the rear. Almost certainly the DH factory in New Zealand, the site of which is now Wellington International Airport - I was there in January!

Cheers,

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James K

"Switch on the underwater landing lights"
Emilio Largo, Thunderball.

www.VintageAeroWriter.com

(*groan*) Don't give up your daytime job quite yet, James.

Here's a little light reading for those not overly familiar with the aviatrix Laura H. Ingalls:

http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/ingalls.html

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Pictures one, five and sixteen are the National Air Museum's Park Ridge facility. Now the NASM.
In the rush to vacate the space it's just heart breaking to think that many of the types never made it to facilitys near Washington, DC.

return with us now to the Reid & Sigrist RS 4 Bobsleigh and tell me where the propelling unit went since it's original spot seems to be occupied by the test pilots prone flying position unless that unfortunate had to lay on the engine and peek between the cylinders, and what's the story on both ailerons being in the UP' position and the flaps down must have made for 'interesting' approaches.

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Um...it's a twin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_and_Sigrist_R.S.3

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OK, I see that now, originally thought it was equipped with 4 machine guns and was a single. Still don't understand the upwards deflected ailerons but it's got one of those typically goofy British aircraft names 'SNARGASHER'

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Photo #20, the P-40 remains in a hanger, what's the story on A29-133 on what looks like the raggedy end of it's second paint job?

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