Roger T Torksey All posts by this member | 1 of 15 Mon 8th Sep 2014 11:53pm Member: Joined Jul 2019 Total posts:543 As the name suggests an aeroplane developed after the end of WW2, in the shape of a wing.
Can anybody remember them flying over Coventry approx 1947-51
I think there were three, then there were two,then there was one, then they were gone.
I have seen a drawing of one in one of the members gallery photos, included in a book of about twenty adverts I think.
Does anybody know a history? manufacturer?purpose? |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 2 of 15 Tue 9th Sep 2014 2:22am Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2975 |
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Greg Coventry All posts by this member | 3 of 15 Tue 9th Sep 2014 4:36pm Member: Joined Apr 2011 Total posts:301 I remember seeing a flying wing come over our house in Wycliffe Grove. It would have been 1947/48 time. |
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DBC Nottinghamshire All posts by this member | 4 of 15 Tue 9th Sep 2014 4:39pm Member: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:168 Same here, flying over my grandmother's house in Stoke Aldermoor. It must have been the early late 40's or early 50's .
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 5 of 15 Tue 9th Sep 2014 5:10pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5606 Just as an aside, here is a memorial stone to William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong - the Armstrong in "Armstrong Whitworth" - photo taken at Bamburgh Castle recently
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Kerbstone Auckland NZ All posts by this member | 6 of 15 Fri 31st Oct 2014 2:55am Member: Joined Aug 2014 Total posts:18 I don't remember any flying wing but I do remember a mass of aircraft flying over Coventry, in the 50's I think. I was only a kid but I remember that they looked like WW2 bombers, each had a projection jutting out from under the fuselage, they were flying fairly low and filled the sky, seemed like hundreds of them and they were flying north. Anyone with any ideas of what it was all about? Question |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 7 of 15 Fri 31st Oct 2014 2:40pm Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3478 Kerbstone, do you think it could have been anything to do with The Festival of Britain ? Just a wild guess. Question |
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Roger T Torksey All posts by this member Thread starter | 8 of 15 Fri 31st Oct 2014 8:41pm Member: Joined Jul 2019 Total posts:543 Could they have been flying to an assembly point for scrap?
or were any used in the Berlin Air Lift? |
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bohica coventry All posts by this member | 9 of 15 Sat 1st Nov 2014 9:19am Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:293 Could they have been Coastal Command Shackletons? (Lancasters with a large bird strike prone radome at the front) |
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Kerbstone Auckland NZ All posts by this member | 10 of 15 Mon 3rd Nov 2014 1:46am Member: Joined Aug 2014 Total posts:18 Hi everyone, I feel that if they had been part of some air show there wouldn't have been so many, I mean they filled the sky and were low enough to pick out details of them quite clearly. It was a long time ago and the memory gets a bit hazy but I'm pretty sure that they had camouflage colours but the thing that stuck in my mind was this thing jutting down from under the fuselage, my small mind thought that the bombs came out of it but may have been a gun turret without the glass dome. The idea that they were being flown somewhere for scrap sounds the most logical, I'd like to know where so many planes would put down though, I bet that was a sight. Cheers ![]() |
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argon New Milton All posts by this member | 11 of 15 Mon 5th Jun 2017 10:10pm Member: Joined Jun 2016 Total posts:366 I have a memory of seeing the AW52 flying wing flying just after the war. I know that it crashed in Leamington but cannot be sure that I actually saw it. Can anyone remember seeing it flying over Coventry or read of it having done so? |
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Roger T Torksey All posts by this member Thread starter | 12 of 15 Mon 5th Jun 2017 11:58pm Member: Joined Jul 2019 Total posts:543 Hi Argon,
Actually, I did see some flying wings, but whether it was that particular one I don`t know.
I remember where I was also - King Henry VIII school playing field / edge of playground, behind the classroom huts. |
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Annewiggy Tamworth All posts by this member | 13 of 15 Tue 6th Jun 2017 8:38am Member: Joined Jan 2013 Total posts:1840 The Western Morning News of 31st May 1949 reported that an AW52 Flying Wing worth £200,000 crashed at Leamington Hastings near Rugby the day before. The pilot ejected and landed safely. It was one of two flying wings built for the Directorate of Science Research of the Ministry of Supply.
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argon New Milton All posts by this member | 14 of 15 Tue 6th Jun 2017 1:34pm Member: Joined Jun 2016 Total posts:366 Thank you Roger and Annewiggy for your replies. I looked for any previous items on the forum about the flying wing but obviously missed them, old age you know. Its nice to know that my memory of the viewing isn't a false one.
As I get older I become more unsure of the accuracy of my memory and and hesitate to assert anything as a true memory. Nice to have it confirmed. |
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Roger T Torksey All posts by this member Thread starter | 15 of 15 Tue 6th Jun 2017 2:43pm Member: Joined Jul 2019 Total posts:543 On 9th Sep 2014 2:22am, dutchman said:
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I think it is worth reviving this posting, purely for the explanation given by "rojwhittle"
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