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23_0006469 Convair Negative Image

from SDASM Archives

• Eagle0025 said:

  CV-240-12, s/n 153. Delivered to Sabena 19 March 1949 and registered OO-AWP. WFU 1957 and later carried registrations SP-LPA, N653W, and LN-KAP. WFU for good June 1973 and scrapped at Oslo, Norway.

Vampire jet after record flight Brisbane to Sydney, Australia, 1949

from State Library of New South Wales

• Francesco Dini said:

  Outstanding image 🌟

• covid convict said:

  I gather the pilot was F/Lt C.D. Murphy, DFC...he was evidently known as Des...
  
  trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/212200987 - the Brisbane Telegraph, 18th July, 1949...report on Murphy's first record breaking flight from Sydney to Brisbane on 18th July, 1949...per the Bris Tele, the time was 70 minutes...
  
  trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/27583304 - SMH, 21st July, 1949...report on Murphy's second record breaking flight...this time on the return leg from Brisbane to Sydney on 20th July, 1949...per the SMH, the time was 62 minutes...

• covid convict said:

  I haven't managed to discover who made the first non-stop flight between Sydney and Brisbane (either direction)...in 1921 Bert Hinkler flew his Avro non-stop from Sydney to Bundaberg in 8hrs 40mins...
  
  In December 1926 Edgar Percival with passenger George Cutts flew non-stop from Sydney to Brisbane in a DH.9 in 4hrs 35mins...
  
  trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16340080 - SMH, 14th December, 1926...brief report on Percival's flight

23_0006502 Convair Negative Image

from SDASM Archives

• Eagle0025 said:

  CV-440-12, s/n 336. Delivered to Sabena 17 July 1956 and registered OO-SCL. WFU and went to Frontier Airlines 10 December 1967 as N73160. Converted to CV-580 1968. Last went to Aspen Airways 9 December 1988. Written off 20 January 1989. Received substantial damage in a forced landing near Buena Vista, CO due to engine failure. The aircraft landed on a dirt road, hit a fence and a log pile caused the nose gear to collapse.

• Stig Jarlevik said:

  Nothing much to add to Gary's eminent text above except that Convair's official date of manufacture was 18 June 1956 (no first flight date unfortunately) which indicates this is a test flight between 18 June and 17 July. Stig