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Re: Can anyone identify this aircraft?

Posted by Steve Young on Wed Oct 03, 2001 01:26:54 PM

In reply top Re: Can anyone identify this aircraft? posted by simon king on Wed Oct 03, 2001 01:09:01 PM

I'd concur with Simon on this; that's definately a Bristol Hercules engine on the stbd nacelle, and the general layout looks the same as the Viking in High Ground Wrecks and Relics, albeit from a different angle.

The picture is taken from about ten feet behind where the starboard aileron would be, looking at the stbd nacelle, and seeing the port nacelle in the background. Apparently the fuselage burnt out, which is why it can't be seen.



: This might just be Vickers Viking G-AIVE of BEA
: crashed 21/4/48 at Irish Law on Beam Approach to Renfrew
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: The picture on page 33 of High Ground Wrecks and Relics Mi
: dland Counties Aviation Pocket Guide No 5 seems awfully si
: milar - just from a different angle.
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: No doubt I'll be proved wrong
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: SK

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