Vintage Aircraft

Something else quite interesting...
(IIIf/elmar/K25: Dhahran-Rome or Paris run ~1953)

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Avro York Ex RAF TS793, G-AGNP, ZS-BRA, OD-ABT, back to G-AGNP, OD-ACZ. Google has the history of the world, in little bits.

As BOAC "Manchester", Heathrow G-AGNP.

Here is her end.

Imagine the sound of the four Merlins...

-Charlie
 
Time for another Dutch plane, or is it? The picture is nothing special, the plane is as itis from 1918:
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Bonus points for any non-Dutch who can name this plane ;-)
 
It's a Koolhoven Bantam, I think, the model number begins with FK but otherwise escapes me. 😱

Adrian
(playing cricket in your neck of the woods in a fortnight!)
 
Thanks for the info and link -- York; I might have remembered eventually. Yes, four Merlins must have been something to hear.

Avro York Ex RAF TS793, G-AGNP, ZS-BRA, OD-ABT, back to G-AGNP, OD-ACZ. Google has the history of the world, in little bits.

As BOAC "Manchester", Heathrow G-AGNP.

Here is her end.

Imagine the sound of the four Merlins...

-Charlie
 
You don't have to imagine 4 Merlins, at Oshkosh every year you can hear them. the P-51 Mustang has the American licensed version of the Merlin.
I was at Oshkosh a few years ago and saw a flight of 6-12 P-51's, amazing sound.

Thanks for the info and link -- York; I might have remembered eventually. Yes, four Merlins must have been something to hear.

 
It's a Koolhoven Bantam, I think, the model number begins with FK but otherwise escapes me. 😱

Adrian
(playing cricket in your neck of the woods in a fortnight!)

Congratulations, the jury decided that your answer is good enough, so you got those extra points 😎
It is a BAT F.K. 23 Bantam, the last surviving original Koolhoven designed aircraft. It used to be in the Aviodrome aircraftmuseum in Lelystad, were I took this picture. These days it is at the recently re-opened Rijksmuseum.
 
You don't have to imagine 4 Merlins, at Oshkosh every year you can hear them. the P-51 Mustang has the American licensed version of the Merlin.
I was at Oshkosh a few years ago and saw a flight of 6-12 P-51's, amazing sound.

Too far. I have one in the hangar next to mine. 😎 I've flown to Oshkosh once and S&F several times. A true must see - I do prefer the antiques to warbirds, though. Blakesburg is the place for them.

- C
 
Congratulations, the jury decided that your answer is good enough, so you got those extra points 😎

Whoopee! I must confess that one of the UK aviation mags - I suspect Aeroplane Monthly, as they do seem to have a taste for the less usual - ran a piece on it some years ago.

Adrian
 
Great photos. The P-51 was such an awesome fighter. I can only imagine what terror an Axis power pilot must've felt when he saw one on his tail.
 
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