Dink's day in the aeroplanemuseum

[VetteG]

Eric Mc said:

And Liberators and Wellingtons and Beauforts and Halifaxes.

They all served with distinction in RAF Coastal Command

I think even the odd Anson and Hudson got in on the act.

I didnt say exclusively Sunderland;s and Catalina's now did I?

Wasnt there an Anson fitted with a huge cannon for coastal command? I remember tales of at least one Luftwaffe pilot who was shot down by an Anson trying to commit suicide because of the shame! Several of them (Ansons that is) were surprisingly heavily armed. The WW2 equivilent of a Q car!

mybrainhurts said:

He said airplane....

Purely a typo honest! No Americana here! Although I do drive a Corvette and I am supposed to be related to Buffalo Bill God help me! Apparently his parents came from Orkney.


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Edited by VetteG on Sunday 12th August 20:25

[Eric Mc]

If anyone is entitled to talk "bull" it HAS to be relative of Buffalo Bill

[anonymous-user]

VetteG said:

Apparently his parents came from Orkney.

I never knew that. All my family are Orcadians. You're not are you VetteG ?

[Negative Creep]

VetteG said:

Wasnt there an Anson fitted with a huge cannon for coastal command? I remember tales of at least one Luftwaffe pilot who was shot down by an Anson trying to commit suicide because of the shame! Several of them (Ansons that is) were surprisingly heavily armed. The WW2 equivilent of a Q car!

Pretty sure they all had the standard pre war armament of 2 .303 machine guns, which were pretty useless by WW2. But they did somehow manage to shoot down a fair number of 109's! Nothing compared to the Sunderland though, it wasn't called 'the flying porcupine' for nothing. There was one famous incident where it took on 8 Ju88 heavy fighters, shot 4 of them down, fatally damaged another 2, then escaped back to base!

[dinkel]

The last bit:


This was the kind of plane you flew last weekend Wim, right?


A pity I couldn't come close to the Neptune . . .


Love those girls.


KLM promo pic.


I always think Martin Parr when I shoot a pic like this.


Excellent P5 . . .


. . . one of the first imports, a 1968 beauty.


After a good day's out, you gotta eat: BBQ at DutchBert's. Wim Klassiekerrally in the background.
At this time we had nuff beers and way nuff meat 'n fish 'n french frites.

Cheers all.

[mybrainhurts]

Frites...?

[Eric Mc]

They have some nice planes in that collection. I spotted a De Havilland Dove in the colours of Martins Air Charter - now all grown up and known as Martinair.

[Klassiekerrally]

That plane looks like the one we flew in indeed... What is it? A Cessna?

mybrainhurts said:

Frites...?

That's french, so french fries are actually french frites

Damn... Have to go to the hairdresser!

[anonymous-user]

Nice pictures guys

[dinkel]

[tank slapper]

dinkel said:

That is an interesting engine - If I am not mistaken it is one of the Wright turbo-compuund ones that had power recovery turbines on the exhausts linked to the crank by hydraulic drive.

Some great shots there.

[dinkel]