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Post by keefyboy on Feb 1, 2024 16:07:40 GMT
I don't remember seeing any of these at LHR but saw plenty at Gatwick and Luton. This is a quality video as it always is from this guy - very informative. The nasty bit where one clipped the tail of Trident PI at LHR looks really bad and I'm surprised the Trident was repairable looking at the damage. I think PI was the ill fated one that crashed into the reservoir several years later.
Anyhow, my mate Mike has lived in Sunbury on Thames all his life (a non spotter but he loves aircraft) - he used to cycle to Blackbushe to watch the aircraft on both sides of the A30 - back in the day. He is adamant that several Ambassadors were dumped in the quarry pits around Heathrow in the early 60's - I've done some research and can find nothing to substantiate this claim - I think he's talking Bks but I would love to be proved wrong!!??
Cheers Keith
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Post by Jeff on Feb 1, 2024 17:32:40 GMT
There were rumours a/ fuselages in the gravel pits in Feltham, never see them myself though.
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Post by keefyboy on Feb 1, 2024 18:02:45 GMT
The plot thickens
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Post by dave on Feb 1, 2024 20:43:10 GMT
hi, don't forget the 140 Spitfires in Burma now Myanmar... i'll get my hat... regards, dave...
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Post by Jeff on Feb 2, 2024 0:58:04 GMT
Two replys so far on a question I asked on the local Bedfont nostalga group
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Post by graham on Feb 2, 2024 8:23:43 GMT
I saw a few at LGW in my very early days of spotting Keith, and several at Lasham which wasn't far down the road from us when the family lived in Basingstoke. I shall have to take a look at my logs now....;0)
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Post by graham on Feb 2, 2024 8:32:19 GMT
Looks like I saw 15 of the 23 built, all either at LGW, LHR or Lasham. Those were the days......
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Post by keefyboy on Feb 2, 2024 9:21:34 GMT
Thank you Jeff for proving that my mate is not completely bonkers even though he got the wrong type of aircraft - I guess there wasn't much of a market for scrap metal back in the day!
Graham - I only managed to see 10 Ambassadors over the years - my first visit to Lasham was back in 72 so I guess the few that were there were probably broken up by then. Also, we only visited the Staravia yard and I don't think we covered the entire airfield.
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Post by Jeff on Feb 2, 2024 9:36:20 GMT
Thank you Jeff for proving that my mate is not completely bonkers even though he got the wrong type of aircraft - I guess there wasn't much of a market for scrap metal back in the day! Graham - I only managed to see 10 Ambassadors over the years - my first visit to Lasham was back in 72 so I guess the few that were there were probably broken up by then. Also, we only visited the Staravia yard and I don't think we covered the entire airfield. Just up the road from Sunbury was Coleys scrap yard, huge amounts of aircraft went through Coleys, there is a photo of piles of hunters on the internet somewhere. This makes it strange that the viking was dumped close by in a gravel pit.
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Post by keefyboy on Feb 2, 2024 10:45:58 GMT
This is a weird coincidence - I've just had a look at the Farnborough thread started by Slideman and went to the link and took a look at the 1948 show. The listing includes none other than G-AJPH Vickers Viking 207 jet powered!!
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Post by graham on Feb 2, 2024 15:23:57 GMT
Hi again Keith, yes, I believe several were retired and broken up at Lasham between 67-69, I visited about three times with my crazy auntie who would just drive straight on to the field and take my brother and I on an impromptu tour! I remember writing down the registrations as we buzzed around the field and saying to her, "what if someone tells us to stop?" and she always replied, " I'll just tell them I took a wrong turn"...
Staravia was brimming with stuff around those years, I remember clamboring over piles of Sea Furies, Sabres, Meteors and Jet Provosts.
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Post by chrisj on Feb 2, 2024 19:13:05 GMT
I have seen photos of withdrawn Eagle Vikings a top the pile in Coley's at Feltham . I think the photos may of been in a magazine or one of the posts on the Key Aero W & R pages . These pages used to be easy to get to but not sure now . I have seen photos of with drawn RN types at Brawdy there as well . Some Sunday afternoons were spent in the Feltham yard among the piles of Hunters an Sea Furies along with many others . Chrisj
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