I love it, Dave, very nice. I do like the Halifax, and one with race roundels has to be extra special.
On a related note, there a couple of Gmax Halifaxes for adoption over at Simviation I think which I had toyed with taking on and finishing. Not sure if I'll do it anytime soon, but surely someone else on here might like a crack at it.
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Cheers Guys.. appreciated ;-)
It spent a lot of it's RAF life being overshadowed by the Lancaster and as it moved into civilian life, the Lancastrian is the aircraft that tends to be remembered. It was never a great success as a stop-gap airliner for BOAC although the smaller airlines used them to much better effect. By 1950.. they'd all but gone so while it had a comparatively short service life, it's contribution in the annals of aviation history.. at least UK aviation history, cannot be underestimated. Believe it or not, the Air Ministry were selling Mk8's off with only delivery/test hours on the clock for a paltry £2000 :o
One of the Vanguard team at Brooklands worked on the BOAC Haltons as his first airline aircraft. He has commented over the last couple of weeks that you have to remember that they were designed around the Halifax bomber which had a service life of 150hrs and the majority exceeded this many times over in civilian life. They were a bugger to work on and you had to be a good spanner man and fault finder but he ranks his time on them as the best grounding any engineer could possibly have. He left BOAC to join the RAF in 1949 and returned to the airline industry 5 years later.. this time for BEA ;-)
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It spent a lot of it's RAF life being overshadowed by the Lancaster and as it moved into civilian life, the Lancastrian is the aircraft that tends to be remembered. It was never a great success as a stop-gap airliner for BOAC although the smaller airlines used them to much better effect. By 1950.. they'd all but gone so while it had a comparatively short service life, it's contribution in the annals of aviation history.. at least UK aviation history, cannot be underestimated. Believe it or not, the Air Ministry were selling Mk8's off with only delivery/test hours on the clock for a paltry £2000 :o
One of the Vanguard team at Brooklands worked on the BOAC Haltons as his first airline aircraft. He has commented over the last couple of weeks that you have to remember that they were designed around the Halifax bomber which had a service life of 150hrs and the majority exceeded this many times over in civilian life. They were a bugger to work on and you had to be a good spanner man and fault finder but he ranks his time on them as the best grounding any engineer could possibly have. He left BOAC to join the RAF in 1949 and returned to the airline industry 5 years later.. this time for BEA ;-)
ATB
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