Seen at the Chiltern Open Air Museum WW2 Weekend, March 28 2010
Friday, 16 April 2010
Austin 10
Austin 10 fitted with a blackout mask to the headlamp, as fitted in the Second World War to reduce the glare from the headlamp to avoid being seen from the air (which also made driving at night a lot more dangerous)
Seen at the Chiltern Open Air Museum WW2 Weekend, March 28 2010
Seen at the Chiltern Open Air Museum WW2 Weekend, March 28 2010
Thursday, 11 March 2010
British Airways advert, 1937
From a 1937 issue of Flight magazine
Featuring a Lockheed 10a Electra
Full size - http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk256/RobLangham/baad.jpg
Sunday, 7 March 2010
Thompson Aircraft Refueller Part Two
I've already mentioned the Thompson aircraft refueller, a common sight at airfields and airports in the 1930's, here http://art-deco-uk.blogspot.com/2009/08/thompson-aircraft-refueller.html , and came across this great advert marketing them in the July 1 1937 issue of Flight magazine, still going today and with an online archive of past issues, accessible here http://www.flightglobal.com/
Now the weather is finally improving i'm hoping to make it down to Brooklands before too long, would be nice to get a better photograph of the Thompson refueller, and hopefully the paintwork will be in better condition too
Friday, 2 October 2009
1936 Riley TT Sprite Le Mans
Seen at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Mallory Park race meeting on 23rd August was this superb 1936 Riley TT Sprite. The bodywork is unlike that of most other Riley TT Sprite's because, in 1937, a French team was formed to enter race meetings equipped with three Riley TT Sprite's fitted with this bodywork for streamlining, built by Maurice Pourtout a Paris coachbuilder. As well as entering various high profile races, such as at the Autodrom at Montlhery, they were most well known for entering the 1937 Le Mans.
Unfortunately the original bodywork of these three cars hasn't survived, so this is a replica built using photographs of the team's cars - the attention to detail is superb, including a sign on the dashboard for 'M PourTout'
Mignet Pou-du-Ciel
The Mignet Pou-du-Ciel, known as the 'Flying Flea' in the United Kingdom although the name translates into 'Louse of the Sky', was a home built aircraft, first flying in 1933 with the book containing plans and instructions becoming available in 1934. Powered by a motorcycle engine and needing very little storage space due to their small size, they were at first very popular with budding aeronauts in many country.
However, a series of fatal accidents led to groundings or bans in most countries in which they were flown in, and, although a solution to the problem was solved (they had a tendency to be unable to pull out of shallow dives), the dangerous reputation they had by then received many remained firmly on the ground. This surviving example is on display at the Midland Air Museum, Coventry
However, a series of fatal accidents led to groundings or bans in most countries in which they were flown in, and, although a solution to the problem was solved (they had a tendency to be unable to pull out of shallow dives), the dangerous reputation they had by then received many remained firmly on the ground. This surviving example is on display at the Midland Air Museum, Coventry
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