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Picture Prompt – Centaurus launched 80 years ago

Canopus

Another in the series of pictures from my father’s collection that form part of the White Water Landings story.  This month is the eightieth anniversary of the launch of Centaurus, the third Empire flying boat to be brought ‘out of

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Picture Prompt: Planes and boats

Picture Prompt: Planes and boats

I love the way Geoffrey got the ensign on the back of the launch in this photo of Camilla leaving Lindi. I assume it’s a red ensign – the Union flag in the top left corner and plain red for

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Picture Prompt | Midday in Mbeya

Picture Prompt | Midday in Mbeya

It’s an Imperial Airways Atalanta airplane (when did aeroplane go out of the vernacular?) at Mbeya, now Tanzania, then Tangyanika. Geoffrey was sent over there as Station Superintendent in the early part of 1937 when he was stationed at Nairobi,

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Picture Prompt – Land planes

HP42 at Croydon in 1935

My visit to the Croydon Airport Museum last month enabled me to understand better the other airplanes that my father travelled on and photographed. This handsome beast is the HP42, which Geoffrey always called the Hannibal or the Heracles, and said

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Picture Prompt – Croydon Airport

Picture Prompt – Croydon Airport

Since I’ll be going to the “Flying Through the ’30s” Symposium organised by the Croydon Airport Society and UCL this month, I thought I’d look at Geoffrey’s experiences as a Commercial Trainee at Croydon. I think the biplane on the left

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Picture Prompt – Wadi Saidna

Picture Prompt – Wadi Saidna

This picture is of Geoffrey relaxing at the bungalow on the outskirts of the RAF station at Wadi Saidna, a few miles from Khartoum in the Sudan.  It was one of those photos that was loose in his archive, but also

J M Pett March 5, 2016February 21, 2016 Picture feature 4 Comments Read more
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