Bristol Freighter

[Nigel H-J]

Brilliant video and thoroughly enjoyed watching it, well done that man!!

Regards
Nigel.

[Mark C]

That video has been well thought out in advance .... very well recorded and presented .... and quite obviously by someome whom not only has enjoyed spending a lot of time watching aircraft at airports, but, whom also feels for and appreciates/enjoys aviation and flying from a technical/pilots eye perspective too .... IT ALL SHOWS HERE/THERE !

Mark C
AKL/NZ
&
BOG/CO

[GaryJ]

Thanks for all your kind remarks Guys, i really appreciate it I spent most of my youth sitting at Southend EGMC spotting from well known locations.....and some "I shouldn't really be here" spots I can just about remember seeing Bristol Freighters in and out, but mostly my youth was spent watching Carvairs, Viscounts and Heralds...Wow!

My Youtube name is "youwani" I'm always posting FS vids so please check em out

Gary

[Garry Russell]

They moved the remaining Superfreighters to Lydd in 1967 discontinuing Superfreighter car ferries from Southend, This was when BUAF became BAF. I don't know if they kept the single Carvair at Lydd but Southend became exclusively Carvair car ferries.

At that time Lydd was a sad site with many Carvair and Bristol Superfreighters 'stored' in various states of dereliction although a couple of Carvairs were returned to service the Superfreighters had time expired wings. The fuselages of G-AMSA and G-AMWC two of the earliest if not the first withdrawls ended up at Southend.

[Tomliner]

Garry,you mentioned the large amount of spares for DC3's.Is anyone actualyy producing new parts or are the 'recycled'?Also do you know what the situation is regarding the P&W Twin Wasps?EricT

[Garry Russell]

Know details apart from there are a lot of them around for bits.

I take it you are referring to the Comet thread where it was said it was a pity that they couldn't keep a Comet flying like DC 3's. My comment was really relitive to the Comet rather that aviation in general.

[Mark C]

Lydd was a sad site with many Carvair

Around the mid 1980's we had a couple of those suckers (CARVAIR's) here in New Zealand. Acquired by a short-lived domestic cargo operator .... NATIONWIDE AIR. Engineered/serviced by AIRWORK LTD in Hamilton they were eventually sold to interests wthin the Hawaiian islands during the late 1980's .... and whom, I understand, intended to use them to fly bread throughout this island chain. At the time HAWAIIAN AIRLINES were also operating DC8-62 and DC8-63 on SKED services into NZAA .... and as a result of the CARVAIR sale to those Hawaiian interests .... the AIR NEW ZEALAND joke at the time became .... "maybe HA is upgrading their fleet"

I'm glad to have seen a CARVAIR (more-so to have photographed 1 in action) .... considering I'd never, ever, seen the SUPER FREIGHTER version of the B170.

Mark C
AKL/NZ

[Garry Russell]

Ah yes

Those were the Ansett aircraft

Funny about the Superfreighter because apart form about four occasions that's the only 170's I ever saw

[Mark C]

apart form about four occasions that's the only 170's I ever saw

So far as I'm aware .... we never, ever, had a visit to New Zealand by a B170 SUPER FREIGHTER.

I saw nothing but the early B170's (short tail/short nose) here in New Zealand.

Living with 4KM of and directly under the flightpath into RNZAF Base Whenupai (where I still live today) I clearly remember those suckers rattling around the circuit .... shattering the early morning tranquility .... among those whom experienced this who could ever forget it

These aircraft were all in their final version RNZAF Vietnam type camouflage at the time .... and until their retirement from air force service during the 1970's.

I never saw much of them after that, but, do now regret not having applied the photograophic interest in these aircraft, at the time, and like I should really have done .... a fact which "THIS" simulation has kind of constantly impressed upon me lately

Just as a matter of interest too ....

Throughout the 1960's, and into the 1970's too I believe .... the RNZAF operated what I think "may" have been the "longest" route ever regularly flown by B170 aircraft. Operating a monthly New Zealand/Singapore service (out of RNZAF Base Whenuapai) in support of our military deployments in the Far East.

Mark C
AKL/NZ

[Chris Trott]

Garry,you mentioned the large amount of spares for DC3's.Is anyone actualyy producing new parts or are the 'recycled'?Also do you know what the situation is regarding the P&W Twin Wasps?EricT

Eric,

There are several concerns who produce some of the parts that wear out on a regular basis, but for the most part, there are still enough derelict airframes available for parting out, that it's not required. In addition, there were so many Twin Wasps built, that we're still able to get NOS parts from various stocks.

The two primary suppliers of DC-3 related parts in the US are Basler (who do the "Turbo Dakota" conversion to PT-6's) based at Oshkosh, WI, and Tradewinds out of San Antonio, TX.