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patkinson
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Does anyone know where this was taken?
In case you can't read it, the inscription read:-
The first aeroplane to land on a mountain in Great Britain did so on this
spot on December 22nd 1926. John Leeming and Bert Hinkler in an Avro 585
Gosport landed here and after a short stay flew back to Woodford.
Landing surface mainly grass, no restaurant and no landing fees but lots of
red tape no doubt.
Do not archive
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riddon(at)sent.com
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:56 am Post subject: the next DOTH? |
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Helvellyn in the Lake district.
The Avro 585 took off from Woodford on the 22nd of December 1926 for a
well planned landing on the mountain. It was not a crash but publicity
stunt, undertaken to claim to be the first aircraft landing on a
mountain in the UK. The pilot landed the aircraft on the flat top of
Helvellyn and then took off again later and returned home.
Pilot - Mr John F Leeming.
Passenger - Mr Bert Hinkler. Avro Test Pilot.
http://www.allenby.info/aircraft/ebph.html
Richard Iddon G-RIXS
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tonyk(at)kaon.co.nz
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:41 am Post subject: the next DOTH? |
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well planned landing on the mountain.
And for those who don't know England too well, the definition of
'mountain' in England is a lot smaller than most other countries.
Helvellyn is 3118ft/950 metres high and is superb 'mountain' to walk up.
Tony
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m.j.gregory(at)talk21.com
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 3:31 pm Post subject: the next DOTH? |
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Paul,
According to http://carlturner.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html , it was on the Lake District mountain of Helvellyn in Cumbria:
"Helvellyn's summit is fairly flat, and in 1926 Australian aviation pioneer Bert Hinkler (with John Leeming) landed an Avro 585 here. Hinkler gained worldwide fame two years later when he became the first man to fly solo from Britain to Australia, an event largely eclipsed in the public memory when Britain's Amy Johnson repeated the feat in 1930 thus becoming the first woman to do so."
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The Avro 585 was registered G-EBPH
Best wishes,
Mike
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willie.harrison(at)tinyon
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:11 am Post subject: the next DOTH? |
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..and anyone who fancies a flavour of this landing can go to the Long Mynd gliding strip in Shropshire. But if you do, then don't make the mistake we made - aiming to put it down between the boulders we discovered that some of the boulders were sleeping sheep which jumped up and ran in all directions just before touchdown...
That wasn't in a Europa but in the very same PA28 which featured in "A Plane is Born" (when Matey is looking at the alternatives to a kit-built aircraft).
Willie
On 13 Oct 2008, at 00:25, Mike Gregory wrote:
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According to http://carlturner.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html , it was on the Lake District mountain of Helvellyn in Cumbria:
"Helvellyn's summit is fairly flat, and in 1926 Australian aviation pioneer Bert Hinkler (with John Leeming) landed an Avro 585 here. Hinkler gained worldwide fame two years later when he became the first man to fly solo from Britain to Australia, an event largely eclipsed in the public memory when Britain's Amy Johnson repeated the feat in 1930 thus becoming the first woman to do so."
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