Proplinerman
646 Wetaskiwin 18-9-05 Bristol Freighter
As the file name says and this was the last Bristol "Frightener" (so called because the APU socket was under the aircraft and close to the engines, so some intrepid member of the ground crew had to crawl under the aircraft to unplug it!) to fly, for Hawkair, till not very many years before I took this photo of the aircraft, on display at the Reynolds museum in Wetaskwin. They used it on support missions to remote mines in Canada. I only ever saw one Freighter when the aircraft was in service and that was EI-APC of Aer Turas (both of blessed memory) clattering out of Manchester on a summer evening back in 1971 or 1972-unforgettable. I did however see two Superfreighters in service (tho in hangars) and those were G-APAU and G-APAV of Midlands Air Cargo, at Coventry in 1972 or 1973, again, all of blessed memory and I so regret now not having photographed them then. Such a characterful aircraft and so sad that no Superfreighters survive, tho quite a few Freighters do. And here is the link to my only other photo of a Freighter, at Yellowknife in Canada:
www.flickr.com/photos/48975048@N06/7326162058/in/photostream
646 Wetaskiwin 18-9-05 Bristol Freighter
As the file name says and this was the last Bristol "Frightener" (so called because the APU socket was under the aircraft and close to the engines, so some intrepid member of the ground crew had to crawl under the aircraft to unplug it!) to fly, for Hawkair, till not very many years before I took this photo of the aircraft, on display at the Reynolds museum in Wetaskwin. They used it on support missions to remote mines in Canada. I only ever saw one Freighter when the aircraft was in service and that was EI-APC of Aer Turas (both of blessed memory) clattering out of Manchester on a summer evening back in 1971 or 1972-unforgettable. I did however see two Superfreighters in service (tho in hangars) and those were G-APAU and G-APAV of Midlands Air Cargo, at Coventry in 1972 or 1973, again, all of blessed memory and I so regret now not having photographed them then. Such a characterful aircraft and so sad that no Superfreighters survive, tho quite a few Freighters do. And here is the link to my only other photo of a Freighter, at Yellowknife in Canada:
www.flickr.com/photos/48975048@N06/7326162058/in/photostream