Hawker Siddeley goodies

[heisthegaffer]

Hi all

Some snaps of some goodies inherited from my wife's grandfather who passed away last year. He was a tool maker at HS, DH and latterly BAe and was a wonderful, fantastic, interesting and fun man missed by us all.

He passed away a couple of weeks before his 92nd birthday... He still worked as a gardener bless him!

Hopefully you'll like them.

[pjfry]

Very cool, thanks for sharing.

I remember visiting Hatfield airport when I was very young in the late 80s. Vaguely remember seeing BAE146s being assembled. Sadly, by the time I left school it had long been shut down.

[CeramicMX5ND2]

This 1966 Hawker Siddeley DH125-1A spent some time at Luton Airport in the late 90's - The RR Viper engines made a great noise

[Simpo Two]

Places to go #1: https://www.dehavillandmuseum.co.uk/

[heisthegaffer]

Thanks all.

Good. Little museum that Simpo Two although I hear its struggling for finances sadly.

I have some other bits which I'll snap and upload when I come across them including a beautiful model Comet G-ANLO.

[Eric Mc]

I visited the de Havilland Museum during one of the periods we were allowed to last year. It is indeed well worth a visit.

I have, somewhere in the loft, a technical brochure which was issued by de Havilland in the early 1960s outlining the basic systems on board the proposed 1E (export) version of the Trident. It was given to Aer Lingus in the hope they might find it of interest. Sadly for de Havilland (later Hawker Siddeley), Aer Lingus (and most other airlines) did not find that the Trident suited their expected needs. Aer Lingus in the end bought BAC 1-11s and later, Boeing 737-200s.