Avro Anson (Nineteen)
by GlynM
Probably the best day of the week weather wise for the airshow although it was very hot.
I particularly wanted to see this aircraft because my father used to service the RAF equivalent of this variant at White Waltham in the 1950s during his national service. He has now got too frail to take round the airshow and I had promised to get him a picture of this aircraft.
Pentax K-3 with DA55-300 @ 300mm
1/800sec, F8 & ISO200.
Shot raw then processed in LR5 with some final tinkering in PSE10
Glyn
I remember the Duke of Edinburgh was learning to fly a Chipmunk at the time and it was parked in its own slot surrounded by whitewashed stones....
Roger
My father told me, before I saw this aircraft at Farnborough, that the ones he worked on had rounded corner windows and were used by the RAF for communication duties. I therefore assumed that these might be the late c19 or c21 RAF variants. I have certainly found old pictures of some that look very similar to the civil nineteen in RAF colours.
I think the earlier variants were more like green houses or had square corner windows.
Research suggests that Avro stopped production of these aircraft in early 1952 and seeing that some remained in RAF service until 1968 I guess that there were probably still lots of different variants around in the early 50s.
But of course this is all largely guesswork on my part and the memories of my elderly father and we could both easily be wrong.
Glyn
I remember an occasion at camp with the Air Training Corps, perhaps RAF Cottesmore in 1963, when an Anson crew member yelled out 'Any of you lads want to fly with us'? I was the first to start running and the last to reach the aircraft! Never did get an Anson in my passenger log!
Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried! (Bill Brandt)
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