Photo Bristol Aircraft

[musec04]

Hello,


Currently on ebay is a photo of a Bristol T.B.8 of the RNAS at:


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EARLY-AIR...AAAOSwEJVexAb0


Regards,


Clint

[Stig Jarlevik]

Clint

A rather indifferent picture (for me that is), but I am puzzled by the name written after the date.
Any interpretation perhaps? Place name?

Serial 43 had been sent to Eastchurch (May) after its crash in March and basically stayed there until sent on a roundtrip to various bases, beginning with Felixstowe, in August.

Serial 153 was in Portsmouth (having arrived 13 July) and since it was there for a Royal review, I doubt it would be anywhere else on the 18th.

Cheers
Stig

[musec04]

Hello Stig,


I actually agree, not a brilliant photo. I posted because a] its a relatively rare aircraft and b] because the seller has material which I thought might interest other board users, but being either civilian or post war, was not material I would post myself.


With regard to the name, I would tend to favour Hilsea in the Portsmouth area. I'm not definite though.However given both 43 and 153 seem to have been east coast based, not improbable either.


Regards,


Clint

[Stig Jarlevik]

Thanks Clint

Hilsea....oh well....I would never have guessed that by myself..... Seems to be a part of Portsmouth actually (I looked it up), so I buy that!

Since No 153 after all was right there, my guess is we are one step ahead of the seller....

Cheers
Stig

[musec04]

Hello,


Currently on ebay is a photo of damaged Bristol F2B Fighter A7224 at :


https://www.ebay.de/itm/Feldpost-Abg...kAAOSw1bJetbMP


Can anyone supply the unit ofA7224?


Actually I now have it 48 Squadron.



Regards,


Clint

[Stig Jarlevik]

Well Clint

Anything wrong with No 48Sq?
Pictured aircraft was lost 21 Sep 1917 (not October)
All sources I have agree about that.

I take it your request about a unit for A7724 is a printing error?
Perhaps you are still using winter gloves? (Just teasing...)

Cheers
Stig

[Col Bruggy]

Originally Posted by Stig Jarlevik

Thanks Clint

Hilsea....oh well....I would never have guessed that by myself..... Seems to be a part of Portsmouth actually (I looked it up), so I buy that!

Since No 153 after all was right there, my guess is we are one step ahead of the seller....

Cheers
Stig

Gentlemen, Ahem.

You will find a similar "uncropped" photograph in the late Jack Bruce's, Britain's First Warplanes. The photo in Britain's First Warplanes has two additional personalities - one at each end (both excluded)!

The photo in B'sFW (p.5), has the following caption:

Officers of the Royal Naval Air Service at Hilsea at the time of the Royal Review of the Fleet, July 1914. At left (excluded) is FSL C. Draper; fourth, fifth and sixth from left are, respectively, Cdr. C. R. Sansom, Lt. R. L. G. Marix and Capt. I. T. Courtney RMLI. The aircraft is a Bristol T.B.8, either No. 43 or No. 153.

See:
Britain's First Warplanes A Pictorial Survey of the First 400 Naval and Military Aircraft.
Bruce, J. M.
Poole:Arms and Armour Press,1987.
p.5

Col.

PS. The book contains potted histories of both No. 43, and No. 153.

[musec04]

Hello,


Currently on ebay is a photo of the Bristol B.R.7 at:


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1913-Rena...IAAOSwyWZf-YVr


Regards,


Clint

[musec04]

Hello,


Currently on ebay is another Bristol F2B Fighter of 1 Squadron AFC A1794 at:


https://www.ebay.com/itm/Small-Photo...sAAOSw4yte2mDu


Regards,


Clint

[musec04]

Hello,


Currently on ebay are photos of tghe first two Bristol F2a prototypes A3303 and A3304 at :


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/71-orig-B...oAAOSwSiVe2oxE


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/72-orig-B...YAAOSwOmZe2oys


Regards,


Clint