The Lumbering Giant - Blackburn Beverley

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As an early entrant into the field of oversize cargo aircraft, the Blackburn Beverley proved to be among the first strategic transport aircraft to emerge following World War II, but despite it showing great promise as it entered service with the RAF, its use of piston-powered engines and a sluggish cruising speed meant it was easy pickings for the rival Lockheed C-130 Hercules, and within a decade of its introduction was facing the wrath of the scrapman.
Chapters:
0:00 - Preamble
0:41 - General Aircraft's Original Proposal
2:16 - Blackburn is Called In
4:17 - The Beverley Takes Shape
6:06 - Beverley Service Entry
7:54 - Beverley's in Action
8:53 - Enter the Hercules
10:01 - The Beverley's Early Withdrawal
12:15 - Conclusion
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@grahamjohnbarr Год назад

In 1967 I flew in the last Beverley out of Singapore on its way back to England. D Coy. 8 R.A.R. arrived in Singapore 1967, complete with Wives & Children. As we landed I looked over & saw the Beverley. I remarked that it would be funny if we had to fly to Malacca in that. With that some buses pulled up & we were ferried to the Beverley. We were bundled on & the Beverley took off. I was sitting on the left side of the plane, towards the front. There was no lining, just the skin of the plane & there were a few rivets missing & the skin would open up occasionally, sitting backwards, of course. As we flew towards Malacca we ran into a storm, As the storm was going the same way we flew the entire journey inside the storm. Gaining height, losing height & lots of buffeting all the way. Finally we arrived at the Terendak Garrison Airfield, knee deep in mud. We were then told that this was the Last Beverley out of Singapore, we were its last load & the last flying Beverley. It was on its way back to England to be decommissioned.

@stevecommons3822 Год назад

"sitting backwards, of course" Civil airliners never adopted this basic safety function. No passenger appeal 🙄

@johngoodfellow168 2 месяца назад

My troop, based in Seletar, may well have travelled in this plane. We travelled all over the far east in Bev's, Andovers, Hercules and once in a brand new Belfast.

@nicholasbell9017 2 месяца назад

That's a journey to remember. Thank you.

@keith-nb8ps 2 месяца назад

As an R.A.F Cadet ..I FLew in a BEVERLEY from DISHFORTH over and Around Holme Valley.. WEST RIDING YORKSHIRE.. 1466 SQUADRON

@RalphBrooker-gn9iv Месяц назад

I was 1189 Sqn (Fratton, Portsmouth). Wore the old battledress, greatcoat and ammo boots. Ended up joining the infantry! Only memory of 1189 was of a Gloster Meteor cockpit in our drill hall.

@1701enter Год назад

My Dad was an instructor at the Parachute School at RAF Abingdon, as a wee lad I thought every time I saw one my Dad was in it! (and we lived in Beverly close!)

@SabotsLibres Год назад

"...which fell to pieces or caught fire...", "...clumsily converted...", "...unstable design, poor visibility and underpowered engines..." An amazing history for the company that would go on to build one of the best aircraft ever to serve the (British) forces, the Buccaneer...

@drstevenrey 8 месяцев назад

I totally agree. However, let's not forget that Blackburn had it's moments in history where they really did smoke some funky stuff and built some really weird designs. The Buccaneer was a good moment without too much weed.

@SabotsLibres 8 месяцев назад

@@drstevenrey 🤣🤣🤣 Mind you, we must remember it was the era of weirdness with flying wheelbarrows, flying bedsteads, Dart engined DC3s at 41,000 feet, Tay engined Viscounts etc...

@tonym480 Год назад

I clearly remember these flying over West Sussex when I was a kid. You would hear them what seemed like several minutes before they slowly floated overhead, before fading away in the distance as they carried leisurely on their way. We also used to see the Hastings and in the 60's the Argosy and Andover and finally the C 130 before Thorney Island ceased as an RAF airfield. At that time there were many military aircraft in the skies there with fighters from RNAS Ford and RAF Tangmere and flight test aircraft from the Hawker airfield at Dunsfold including the P1127/Kestrel/Harrier. Exciting stuff for an aeroplane mad lad 😃

@andywakely5568 Год назад

we used to hear them and see them at Hayling which is across the short stretch of water from Thorney Island. Also remember the argosys doing parachute flare drops over here and then came the andovers followed by the Hercs - lot of good memories from back then

@jimthorne304 2 месяца назад

My first ever 'air experience' as an RAF cadet in about 1962; we circled around Abingdon for about 1/2 an hour, seated in backward facing seats in the hold. The noise was incredible, literally I couldn't hear myself think, never mind speak! The instructor described the Beverley in flight as 'like a well meaning pig'!

@cliffb1 Год назад

Aah, those were the days. I was born and grew up in Abingdon, where the Beverley along with the HP Hastings, were a constant presence. As a young teenager, I joined 2121 Squadron, Air Training Corps, based in a hall in Shippon, very near RAF Abingdon. Apart from all the fun of drilling, marching, and aircraft recognition, the best part was that we had full and free access to the base. This meant that we could at any time cycle over to 47 Squadron, smartly salute, and before we knew it, be put on a Beverley for an 'Air Experience' flight. We could fly either in the tail boom or, if we were really lucky, sat on the battery box in the cockpit. The flights were either just a 'flight to nowhere' or, if we were again lucky, to another RAF base. I made it to RAF Marham and Thorney Island, both trips coming back before lunchtime. This is where our being ATC cadets also paid off, as we also got to eat a very full lunch at the 'non-coms' mess for the cost of just one shilling. Further delights were in store for us as 48 Squadron was also at Abingdon and if we were lucky we got to fly on one of the Hastings. On one flight I was strapped into a paratroops seat watching the (parachute) display team, the Red Falcons jump out. Before he jumped, one of the team gave me the fright of my life by coming over to where I was seated, dropping a reserve 'chute onto my lap and shouting with a huge grin on his face: 'Off you go lad!' It was sad when the Bev was phased out, as the sound of their engines could be heard all over Abingdon. 'Circuits and bumps' were a regular activity and great fun to watch. Yes, the Bev was a bit of a lumbering giant, but it had way more character than its replacement, the Hercules!

@bawhamper Год назад

My dad spoke to a Beverley pilot in Borneo in the early 60s. He asked the pilot “What the hell is that thing like to fly?” The pilot replied “Imagine sitting in the upstairs toilet of a three-storey house - it’s like that”.

@travelbugse2829 Год назад

😂😂😂

@stevecommons3822 Год назад

A nice video, thanks. As a 17-year old RAF dependent I flew on one of these from RAF Luqa, Malta, to UK in 1965. It was one of the famous "indulgence" flights costing 30/-. A 12-hour trip with a stop at Istres in southern France. The Air Quartermaster looked after me very well with a Mars bar and a coffee every hour (that's a lot of Mars bars!). I sat in the passenger compartment in the tail boom. The cargo hold was carrying the nose section of a Canberra.

@andrewhotston983 Год назад

Thank you for posting this video. My father worked on Beverleys in Aden during his National Service, and in the 70s we used to visit the museum at Southend. I was shocked to learn that the Beverley there had been scrapped. I would love an Airfix model of one.

@michaelpowell3980 Год назад

My dad flew in these in his early days as a Royal Marine (42 Commando, 1950-1965) He said it was almost as slow as going by ship! Legend has it is he's still up there now heading for Singapore...

@travelbugse2829 Год назад

I love the anecdotes for this video! Keep 'em coming.

@philiptaylor8790 Год назад

The last Bev, as of my last visit 26 Dec 22, was in a very sorry partially dismantled state at Fort Paull. Engines , empenage and outer wings removed. Its not on public display, its just peeping over the wall with tears in its eyes.

@bernardsmith1329 Год назад

I remember the last time that particular Beverley (or any other) landed, at what by now was Hawker Siddeley, Brough. It had come home for the day prior to flying to Paull airfield (It was 1971 or 1972). To this young apprentice this enormous aircraft was unbelievable in its size and amazingly short landing. I can't remember if it stayed for more than a day but I do recall the take-off which was also very short! Happy memories!

@Keithbarber Год назад

Oooo

@desertmandan123 Год назад

I last saw a Bev in RAF Habbanyah now called Al Taqaddum in Iraq in 2007. Undercart gone and sat on it's belly, it was in surprisingly good condition in the arrid conditions of the Iraqi airfield. Quite a sight.

@Charstring Год назад

That Beverley made a great landmark and looked huge looming up out of the fort when seen from aboard ferries heading down the Humber estuary.

@spanishpeaches2930 Год назад

I remember going to Paull airfield, east of Hull, in about 75, with my dad, who had been in the RAF. Me and my younger brother went inside and up to the cockpit. It seemed huge then . Happy days for a this young teenager then.

@keithfowler2013 Месяц назад

Living in Oxford in the 60's, the sky's seemed full of these massive beasts. I also remember paratroops jumping out of them at RAF. Western on the Green. Once seen, never forgotten. Really great video. Thanks.

@jamesspiers6496 Год назад

I worked on the Beverleys of 242 OCU Trasport Command in 1959 at RAF Dishforth before we packed up lock stock and barrel and moved down to Farms Dispersal at RAF Thorney Island along with the Hadley Page Hastings Flight. We used to do our night flying training at RAF Idris, Libya, and Our Heavy drop Training at RAF Tangmere a mere three miles up the road. I left the RAF in 1965 and never saw the end of the Beverleys although I was there for the arrival of the Argosies.

@malcolmmartin2892 Год назад

Thanks for the memories! My first flying experience as an air cadet in 1963 was in Beverley XB288 and the last of 14 flights in the type was in XB269 from Abingdon to the scrapman at RAF Shawbury in December 1967. Coincidentally my daughter now lives in the market town of Beverley.

@marinedrive5484 Год назад

Reminds me of the more numerous Bristol Freighters, originally developed in the 1940s with production running through to 1958. Some were still in operation in New Zealand until the late 1970s as commercial freighters - a faithful workhorse!

@MrUltranuman Год назад

Saw them regularly at Wellington Airport, into the 1980s.

@michaelmaddy278 Год назад

I wonder if it might have carried on longer if they added turbine engines?

@Stevie671 Год назад

Same, noisy as, weird looking thing with the front door, but a regular feature at NZ airports. What did they carry?

@MrUltranuman Год назад

@@Stevie671 I always assumed general freight. Last time I saw one was a rather sad looking unit at Omaka.

@bazza945 Год назад

Yeah, those BFs, flew two trips in 1968, 600 miles over the South Pacific Ocean. You could see the wave tops.

@Bungle-UK Год назад

I loved the Museum of Army Transport in Beverley when I was a kid - the Beverley aircraft was so imposing when you arrived. Sadly the museum is long gone and is now, predictably, a shopping centre!

@bigblue6917 Год назад

I also saw it there

@tinshedgames9310 Год назад

Two of use to run the WW1 munitions train on a Sunday at the transport museum ( I mainly did the points and air lines then stood on the back of the last carriage all day). The Beverley made a lovely spot for a tea break.

@k3D4rsi554maq Год назад

It's really sad to hear that.

@MichaelKingsfordGray Год назад

@@bigblue6917 "bigblue"??? What kind of adult name is that?

@Togidubnus Год назад

The remaining Beverley has always been part of my life. When I was a boy, it was the clubhouse for the Paull flying club, near my Gran's. I've sat at the controls a couple of times. Later, it was an imposing sight at Flemingate where I would cycle past it to and from work. The Flemingate site was Hodgson's tannery before it became the Museum of Army Transport. The ground was horribly poisoned by years of tannery pits, and so once the old buildings were demolished it lay vacant for many years. It's a shame Wilco couldn't have stayed where it was. But the poor Beverley had many more flaws than are mentioned here. The engines consumed vast quantities of oil which has to be topped up during flight, manually. And there was the fuel pump which could be fitted in reverse: that lead to a fatal crash. It was very popular with every pilot who flew it, though. Great visibility!

@88SPIKE Год назад

Flew in one of these from Changi to Kuantan and back in 1964 when our squadron (3 Sqdn) was detached there from Germany

@shinvelcro Год назад

My Dad really liked the Beverley, he was doing wireless work in Cypress when they where there. He used to take me and my Brother to hendon a fair bit in the mid to late 80s and it was sad to see it getting scrapped on our visits. My Brother was able to talk some one doing the cutting to let us buy a light from inside, that we put on a little stand with a little metal plaque for my Dad's birthday. He even took us to the one in Beverley one summer holidays. 😄

@gravelydon7072 2 месяца назад

What years? Dad was in the US Navy and we were there in 1958 to 1960. We lived in Nicosia and he worked at Yerolakkos, Cyprus which was a British military base. Too young for me to ever remember seeing a Beverly flying there. My first jet flight was on a BOAC Comet 4 when they were new.

@Tim67620 Год назад

Thanks for this video. It brought back many memories of when I saw it often at RAF Khormaksar in Aden. I was there between '62 and '64 as a kid of 10 who was mad about planes. Got up close to one since I was in the Air Scouts there. They had a lot to do and took off and landed often ferrying stuff 'Up Country' to the troops on the front line. They seemed to have a huge capacity to me at the time. Someone said you could get a bus in one. Definitely noisy though but not as loud as the SRN4 cross channel hovercraft. You could hear that from miles away. It was always a busy airport but watching the Hunters take off was my best sight. The Beverley always looked gawky but did it's job. Aden was a tough place for kit and machinery but it was a great plane in it's own right.

@stephenrandall3551 Год назад

I was in Aden between 64&66 and spent most of my time “up country”. There was a story about an American naval officer on a visit to Khormaksar looking at s Beverly and commenting, “are these the biggest things you’ve got?” The bloke escorting him said “ no, you should see the ones that brought these over”.

@ParcBlondel Год назад

As a very young lad I probably saw every one that was ever made. Our village was on the opposite bank of the HUmber to BRough, and I could watch them take off, and then lumber over the river and over our house, before slowly returning to Brough. Then one day I saw the Blackburn Buccaneer doing the same flyover, and thought "What the heck is that!" (Though I probably didn't think the word heck... best not write what I did think!

@julianmoore3091 Год назад

Growing up in Plymouth in the 1960/70's and living on what was the perimeter road for Plymouth airport (Plymbridge Road). By standing on our wall I had a ring side view of the Plymouth Airshow, the runway was too short to operate jets but long enough to operate the twin engine Dove and the 4 engine Heron Dan Air). Can't remember which airshow it was but we had a Beverly which landed and taking off, for taking off it went as far as it could before turning with its tail outside the airport over the road. When it took off the prop wash blew the fence down an amazing sight.

@bitterdrinker Год назад

My father flew around Libya in one of these when he did his National Service in the army. He liked the Beverley but not the whingeing RAF crew who complained about the sand.....they left Sid the scorpion on board in a biscuit tin as a surprise...

@uzaiyaro Год назад

There’s gotta be more to the scorpion story.

@Bugaboo-wq5sc Год назад

A friend of mine said in the 60's his dad was stationed in the middle east somewhere and said something about he used to put kerosene cans around his bed to keep the scorpions from climbing in. I don't know the details but they must have been bad enough if he went to the trouble. I assume he didn't smoke in bed!

@justme8340 Год назад

That’s funny because my dad’s second time in the US Navy was during the Korean War (he was already a Leyte Gulf battle vet) he was stationed in Saudi Arabia. He said the USAF “kids” were whiny and most of them even had their own servants in the form of former POW’s from Italy. Though I doubt Dad left any scorpions for them. Haha!

@padolaborneo9934 Год назад

Back 1963 this landed at Sandakan.. I was only around 8..this was the biggest plane I ever saw at that time..RAF ...one wing flipped to an electrical post that ripped the wing tip..nice plane

@andrewsteele7663 Год назад

What a brilliant aircraft, I visited the Army Transport Museum in the early 90's and threw some coins into the tin for the refurbishment of the Beverly. And I spent a couple of hours at the museum looking at the excellent displays and the Beverly. Great to hear that one example still exists. I was wondering what had happened to the museum, but Alex below has supplied with the answer. Gret video, Cheers

@robg5958 Год назад

I used to work as an aviation engineering contractor in the 1980s and 90s. During those times, I met many men from British Aerospace Hull and they always spoke with great pride about the Blackburn Beverley. Unfortunately for the British transport aviation industry, the C130 simply could not be equalled.I really enjoy your videos!

@nickbielby7095 Год назад

I cut my teeth as a Hawker Siddeley/BAE apprentice on the Buccaneer etc. I heard many stories from the older guys about building the Beverley. I also did a spell contracting abroad.

@AtheistOrphan Год назад

I remember the one outside the RAF Museum, Hendon. An impressive beast!

@skytrucker87 Год назад

I was a Court Line pilot when the Bev was delivered to the great amusement of some of my younger colleagues. The Beverley was in current service during my time in the RAF and it was great to see the old girl on the tarmac in Luton. As an aside, the base in Singapore is pronounced Se - LEE- tar. What a brilliant and intriguing video.

@peteohead Год назад

Apparently you only had to navigate one way as on the return leg you could just follow the oil slick. My dad flew these; thanks for the video.👍

@jocking3 Год назад

Looks like something from "Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines"

@jaclestrat Год назад

I flew from Chang Mai Thailand to Seleleter Singapore in a Beverley in 1962.It was so cold up in the passenger dept.i climbed down to the hold for some blankets.The clamshell doors had been removed ,just a rope net in their place.

@pabloznotti6883 Год назад

far out, i went to school with a girl called Beverly Blackburn. she was a big lass and a great character.

@peterjones3557 Год назад

I remember it well! ex RAF Abingdon 1964.

@peterperkin3094 Год назад

Not mentioned were 30 squadron (Kenya) and 84 squadron (Aden) - both using Beverleys in the 1960's!

@christopherrobinson7541 Год назад

84 sqn moved to Sharjah and converted to Andovers. I was on 84 sqn until it disbanded in 1971.

@derekantill3721 Год назад

I flew with 30 squadron from R A F Eastleigh when in the army en route to Kuwait.

@peterdickenson424 Год назад

@@derekantill3721 flew from kenya to aden then to kuwait with the 2nd bat coldstream guards

@anthonymclauchlan Год назад

Beverley from Transport Wing at RAF Khormaksar Aden was blown up by saboteurs at RAF Muharraq Bahrain during Operation Vantage which stopped Iraq invading Kuwait in 1961. I was serving on 8Sqdn Hunters at the time, and heard the explosion from the Officers Mess bar. Security improved thereafter thanks to the RAF Regiment arriving to take control. The fuselage was I believe used as a bar. Maybe just a rumour. Mac McL

@chrisw1018 Год назад

Regarding the application of turboprop power for the Beverley. Powerful turboprops were in their infancy when the Bev was being designed, and not very well proven (check out the Bristol Britannia). Apparently, at the time of design only Piston engines could drive reverse pitch props to enable short landings which was a major requirement for the Beverley (or to reverse). The immediatly successful Rolls Royce Dart turboprop as used in the Vickers Viscount would not have been powerful enough. Later in its service a re-engine to turboprops for the Bev was considered, but given the remaining time of the aircraft's service, it was not viable. Also, I think it wouldn't have been much faster, as the airframe was quite 'draggy' and more speed would cause even more drag. Lastly, the Beverley was designed for short haul flying, so piston power would have been acceptable for that in those days. Ironically, The RAF used the Beverley as a long haul heavy transport as well, as no other type was available until the Short Belfast arrived a year before the Bevs retired.

@philsteele7151 Год назад

A blast from the past, saw one at Beverley in the mid eighties, a very good museum, it had a mobile bakery that the the MOD borrowed during the Falklands.

@shanehnorman Год назад

As a schoolboy in the CCF (Combined Cadet Force - I think 'force' can be in inverted commas), my squad was taken up in one of these at an RAF base in the early-1960s. We sat in the tail boom, where the aircraft's pitching was most pronounced, as the pilot went through about a dozen 'circuits and bumps' (take-off, circle the base, then touch down, again and again in a continuous flow) and the air in the cramped cabin became loud with retching and noxious with vomit odours. Every time we touched down, hopes rose that this might be the last, only to raise really pitiable groans from a dozen distressed teens as the nose lifted and we became airborne again. An impressive machine, but not my favourite.

@jamesmiller6977 2 месяца назад

I can remember a squadron of these being based at RAF Bicester in the late 1960s. I went aboard the one at the Army Museum of Transport in Beverley in late 1990s.

@njm3211 Год назад

Those enormous fixed landing gear struts certainly contributed to its lack luster speed. The C130 seems light years ahead. It's still in production with many upgrades from the original 1950's model.

@piglex1 Год назад

I knew people who flew backwards in a Beverley over Aden due to strong winds.Great stuff.

@nuttysquirrel8574 Год назад

I was born in Abingdon, in 1950, when my father was a Sgt at the RAF base there. I remember seeing these big beasts flying around most days and, from as young as I can remember, all I ever wanted to be was an RAF pilot. Sadly, for personal reasons, that never happened but I eventually did get my PPL aged 56!! As for the Blackburn, how could a company go from making such 'dogs' as the Twin Zeppelin, the Rock and the Botha, to the world renown Buccaneer; one of, if not the best, low level strike jets ever made. Amazing.

@greenseaships 7 месяцев назад

IMHO the fact that this aircraft was successful and did it's job well shows more its heritage of General Aircraft than Blackburn.

@ulrichkalber9039 Год назад

9:54 yes, that is a C-130 landing on an carrier.

@Mishn0 Год назад

It was able to take off again as well.

@ulrichkalber9039 Год назад

@@Mishn0 indeed

@gravelydon7072 2 месяца назад

@@Mishn0 And at full loads for both landing and take offs.

@SnarlingDog Год назад

One of my earliest memories was cycling to Rochford air museum with my mate and playing on the Beverley. You could go inside it and sit in the cockpit. It was that which drew me to this video and then you mentioned it right towards the end! I always wondered what happened to it. Thanks

@Calvertfilm Год назад

I remember seeing and photographing the Beverly at Southend. It was the largest aircraft they had there at the time. Thanks for covering its history, very interesting.

@PaulB-justme Год назад

Same here! I am sure that I have some photos of the Beverly at Southend, including one inside the cockpit. Trouble is that I had to borrow my mother's camera and she was always a bit short of money to get the photos developed, so I could never take that many. 😟

@Calvertfilm Год назад

@@PaulB-justme Glad some of us have that as a memory. Nice.

@rachelcarre9468 Год назад

I need this video in my life right now! Thank you!

@lawrencemartin1113 Год назад

I sat in the pilots seat of the one at Southend Airport as a small boy back in the 1970's. I remember it just seemed so massive as a 7 year old!! Sad to think it just rotted away. I also managed a very cheeky climb up into the cockpit and nose gunners position of the ex Spanish airforce He 111 that they had on display back then. It wasn't officially open but someone had left a hatch open and for an aircraft obsessed lad who had already seen bits of the film The Battle of Britain, it was far too much to resist!! I carefully hauled myself in and was thrilled by being inside, sitting in the left seat and clambering down into that amazing glazed nose. Having frozen still to avoid the gaze of one of the staff, I quietly climbed back out and re joined my family who wondered where the heck I had been! I didn't let on for several years!

@jonathanlee5907 Год назад

My Dad was an air-dispatcher on the Beverley in Kenya & Aden. I have a newspaper clipping of a famine relief effort and he is in the photo. He used to tell a story about a District Commissioner asking where to put his Landrover when they did a drop and he told him to put it in the middle of the cross of white sheets used as a target. One flat landy later the DC wasn’t very happy…

@richardsproulle2691 Год назад

This brings back memories! I was an air cadet at camp at Thorney Island in 1965 and we did a flight in one. You had to climb up some bars in the load bay to get to the seats up the top and we sat facing the rear. All went well for a while then a sergeant appeared with a worried look on his face. 'fasten seatbelts!' he cried, we're going to fly though a thunderstorm!' Seat belts were duly fastened then the pitching, rolling and upping and downing started. Soon the sick bags came out and all the cheerful cadets started to go green. The smell of vomit hung in the air as I started to feel nauseous too. All was well however, we landed so my sick bag was kept clean! We taxied in past some bits of a crashed Hastings! Next flight was in an Argosy which was smooth apart from engines stopping!

@notwoke4788 Год назад

Must have been the same time for me although our ATC cadet group was billeted at Tangmere. Flying sick bag one day and an Argosy a couple of days later with seats facing aft and a stench of kerosine.

@jeremyb4228 Год назад

My late father was a Flight Engineer on Beverleys initially in Singapore from 1958 to 1962 based at Changi and then Seletar. As a boy we used to sit on a grassy bank overlooking Seletar airbase watching them doing practice parachute drops over ground targets. In 1962 we returned home and my father was then based at RAF Benson before he re-trained to fly on Argosy's and then the Short Belfast and then the Hercules (by then he was based at Thorney Island)

@terex3315 Год назад

I remember watching the paratroopers jumping out of these at Weston on the Green in the sixties. They used to take off from R.A.F Bicester.

@Froobyone Год назад

Nice to see this one. Just after lockdown Mk1 finished in 2020 and we were allowed out on our own recognisance, I took one of my drones to Fort Paull to try and grab some footage before she was ultimately moved. The footage is on my channel, but it's nestled in a music video. Thanks for this.

@Firebrand55 Год назад

10.14....not 1966....1967. I was at Thorney Island from Jan.1967 working on Beverleys and Andovers, before the arrival of the C-130. The Bev came into it's own over Borneo during Confrontation, with it's short run, slow speed, major supply drop missions.

@brentsummers7377 Год назад

The Beverley at Hendon was the ideal aircraft to have at the entrance. On my second visit to the RAF museum it had disappeared - now I know why!

@chriscorker5634 Год назад

A typically British post war looking aircraft. My favourite time of British aviation.

@nicholasbell9017 Год назад

I remember the Beverlys as a kid, doing circuits and bumps at Thorney Island. Some were silver, some were buff/brown camouflaged. Our house was by Chichester harbour entrance, so we saw all sorts of military planes on low final approach into Thorney, almost overhead! Prior to this, about 1960, there were Vulcan bombers there. I was four years old, and the sound of their engines being tested a mile and a half away was terrifying. Nick.

@Ballinalower Год назад

I jumped out of them several times as a young Paratrooper. Much nicer than the Dakota. Though I remember standing in the door of a Dakota while it went round 3 times before the jump was abandoned due to the wind on the ground being too strong. On each circuit it passed right over my parents, and my, home. That was a never to be repeated thrill. It was disappointing not to be able to jump that time.

@pierevojzola9737 2 месяца назад

Hi, I jumped out of the Hastings which was not much better as the rigging lines went from high at the door to be anchored in the floor just aft of the pilots cabin. Small exit doors and the tail was too near the door! They left the door open when we jumped into Norway, man I had icicles on my testicles. Jumping out of the Guppy in comparison was a piece of cake, the Argosy was fast but when you jumped out of the port side you tended to be mixed up with the starboard stick, happened to me at Larisa in Greece. The C130 was just awesome. Cheers mate. Harera

@andysaunders3708 Год назад

This is a fascinating piece of history. Thank you.

@steveknight878 Год назад

Around 1959 to 1960 I lived in Singapore, near the Changi RAF airport. There were Beverleys based there, and they were seriously noisy. If you were playing a record as they took off, the arm would bounce across the record, to the detriment of both the record and the sound. Any cups or glasses with drinks in them would develop concentric waves on their surfaces.

@petergates5170 Год назад

Great Plane ..did what it was suppoxed to Supplied thousands of troops in the middle and Far East with essential supplies ...always looked forward to it's Pars drops of Beer and Fuel...especially in Borneo in the 60s

@zanelindsay1267 Год назад

Fascinating story on yet another facet of aircraft history and development, a unique model which I had never heard of before.

@MrAvant123 Год назад

The Herc must have seemed like sci-fi when it came along a few years later !

@burntnougat5341 Год назад

It's so cute. This and the Norman Islander are some of the cutest British aircraft

@heidirabenau511 Год назад

Don't forget the ATL-98 Carvair AKA the fake turboprop 747!

@burntnougat5341 Год назад

@@heidirabenau511 LOL so that's what that is

@uingaeoc3905 Год назад

B-N Islander still in production!

@sandervanderkammen9230 Год назад

More fugly than a cheap plastic garden shed.

@DKS225 Год назад

Shame i never got to see The Blackburn Beverley on display during my UK Visits. That said The C-130's were quite a sight and sound even here In Australia at one of The RAAF's Air bases at Richmond NSW despite the arrival of The C-17 Globemasters.

@JoshuaC923 Год назад

A forgotten workhouse

@user-zx4mb7ui1r 2 месяца назад

I only ever got close to a Beverley once, and that was at Shoreham. I forget what the show was about but do remember that Prince Bernhardt of the Nertherlands was there, as was his DC3. Would have loved to see the Beverley depart, unfortunately I was on the train back home by then.

@davidsirett5560 Год назад

i was working at the Hi Tec Wearhouse in Aviation way Southend when XB261 was being broken up in the field next door. i have somewhere a couple of photos i took of a man standing on the wing hacking away at the engine mounts with an axe. it was a sad sight to see.

@mycroft1905 Год назад

A fabulous sight and sound.

@doddsy2978 Год назад

Some memories there, having lived at Thorney Island (where I saw the Andovers in their Brown, Stone and black camouflage), Aden and Singapore (where I first met the Hercules). One pick, if I may, RAF Seletar, where I went to school, is pronounced Seleetar rather than how it is spelt.

@ProTantoQuid Год назад

Back in the early '60's, I had a trip to Nice in the cargo bay of a Beverley. The string seat and the freezing cold made it the most unpleasant flight of my RAF career.

@harrygatto Год назад

I remember seeing them at RAF Dishforth when travelling on the A1 in the early 60s. Highly distinctive and unique profile.

@maxwellfan55 Год назад

The unmistakeable silhouette of the much loved Blackburn Beverley, stalwart of RAF Transport Command. This plane could (amazingly) get aloft from very short, makeshift runways! Familiar sight in Aden delivering stuff in Radfan and beyond. The RAF transport equivalent to Costal Command's mighty Sunderland.

@jimdavis8391 Год назад

The Warwick was not a transport version of the Wellington, it was a completely new plane designed to supercede the Wimpy as a medium bomber.

@davidpeters6536 Год назад

I remember these as a youngster at the airshows my dad took me to. I saw the one at Hendon a few times when visiting the museums. A real shame if the last one is being left to rot though.

@grahamwood9428 Год назад

I distinctly remember a Beverly at one of the first airshows I ever saw. This was at North Weald near Harlow. I reckon I was about 6 or 7. Remember 9 Lightings as well, I was terrified by the noise but couldn,t take my eyes off them. Oh and the Red Pelicans. 1965/66?

@fredyellowsnow7492 Год назад

I recall sitting in the Paull Beverley, when it was just there as an unexpected curiosity during a refuelling stop one afternoon. I'd never heard of it before that.

@leifvejby8023 Год назад

Vickers Warrick a modified Wellington?!? The Warrick certainly wasn't a modified Wimpy, but its own design!

@markwilliamwestonwilson1503 Год назад

In the seventies and eighties there was a Beverley on display at Southend Airport Museum in Essex

@dcasteaux9181 Год назад

Talk about weird coincidences: My 85 year old neighbour Derek died last month. At his wake was a model of this same plane. His widow told me he used to service this aircraft as well as Gloster Meteors during his long RAF career. RIP Derek.

@alasdairmackenzie905 3 месяца назад

There was the story jokingly told that the Beverley was suggested for a post-RAF retirement role in crop spraying. Apparently they sprayed out so much engine oil that it was thought that the sumps could instead be filled with whatever needed spraying and then the old tub flown back and forward over the fields to be treated.

@haydenbretton2990 Год назад

Some of us had the good fortune to travel on these giants all over the Far East & Middle East. I had a pal who used to fly them, in the end he told me during them being taken out of service they flew them to the breakers yard. My friend said when he landed he asked, "Where do I park it" He was told, "Back up to the one behind you until you hear you have crushed your tail boom"

@chrisweeks6973 Год назад

I did supply drops out of the Bev in Borneo, 1965-6, whilst at Labuan during Confrontation - a forgotten conflict, if the commentary is any guide! Slow she may have been, but ideal for the task over mountainous jungle terrain. Come skimming over a ridge, drop down into the valley, push the load out, stand the aircraft on its wingtip and climb out hard to dodge the next ridge. Go round and repeat. Got quite exciting, especially with low cloud about!

@bigdmac33 Год назад

Preservation of notable and significant should always have been an imperative. When you consider how many aircraft had been produced from the early 1900s, and compare that with what is available today to experience, it becomes obvious that between exhibits, media, books et al, the best that could be said about aircraft history is that it is fragmented. This is why preservation groups are vital in securing these pieces of aviation history.

@SmartSilver Год назад

Great old plane. A major step in the right direction for RAF transport command.

@thirtysixverts Год назад

Bristol Freighter next!!! I love these weird cargo planes.

@user-vr8bf1mv9l 4 месяца назад

I was at RAF Muharaque in 1966 30 squadron and was sent with squadron leader Mulligan and crew as the engine mechanic to collect a re furbished Beverly from Hong Kong it took us about 4 weeks to get back to Muharaque cos we were not in a hurry

@stewartmcmanus3991 Год назад

I had a couple of flights in one in the late fifties early sixties when I was in the Air Training Corps.

@kenmealing5306 Год назад

I remember three of them went over our house it looked awesome .

@bryanjeanes2189 Год назад

Thanks very much for that very interesting video. I was flown from the UK to Florida on one in 1972. The seating was quite comfortable airliner type recline able. A lot better than the plastic webbing sideways things on the C130 I flew back on. 😂

@juleswilko Год назад

Blimey - how many hours and fuel stops did that take ?

@rodpettet2819 Год назад

@@juleswilko I'd like to know that too!

@neilturner6749 Год назад

You must be mistaken Sir - Beverley’s were long out of service by 1972. It must have been a Shorts Belfast you’re confused with, or else way-out with the year...

@bryanjeanes2189 Год назад

@@neilturner6749 you are a absolutely correct sir. And that is not the only thing I am confused about at this time of life 🤣

@peterduxbury927 Год назад

@@bryanjeanes2189 Your reply to Neil Turner gave me a smile...............

@nightlightabcd 2 месяца назад

I'm glad that they managed to save at least one!

@user-zx7dp3qp6u Год назад

I remember seeing one of these aircraft at a airshow in about 63-64 I was in my early teens, and thinking that thing can't possibly fly . I was later God smacked when it flew out at the end of the show.

@philipmontague9624 Год назад

Went to NZ in 2000 - there was a complete Beverley outside at MOTAT - Museum of Transport & Technology in Aukland. It was maintained by enthusiasts - exterior painting etc. only. Checked the website a few years back and it was no longer showing. I can also vaguely remember seeing one flying over Gloucestershire in the Sixties sometime in RAF colours.

@Lindsay5137 Год назад

I was at the opening of Wellington Airport in Ocy 1959, there was a Beverley there, I was very impressed byt the fact that it could taxi - in reverse.

@kennethkustren3966 Год назад

A rather unknown aircraft in today's Canada . deHavilland had BIG ideas,... this video elucidates History . TYVM ... GOD BLESSES THE COMMONWEALTH.

@wbertie2604 Год назад

The Warwick was a standalone bomber, and not a transport primarily, not a version of the Wellington. In the end it was mostly used in ASW roles and then rescue.

@paulkirkland3263 Год назад

I was just about to type that meself..

@greghavers821 Год назад

Wonderful!! been waiting for this!! Any chance of covering the Armstrong Whitworth Argosy too? these 2 aircraft were my favourite planes when I was a kid!!

@maxwellfan55 Год назад

Me too. My dear old Dad was a W.O. with Transport Command, Benson. Two very happy tours there. We live opposite the runway. The Argosy used to make a high pitch whining sound as engines were tested and for take offs. I also flew in one. Beverley also a familiar sight, based at nearby Abingdon and ADEN where we were also posted. Both much loved aeroplanes and wonderful memories. Wish I had a time machine to see mum in the kitchen and dad in uniform returning to our quarter from work.

@brucefletcher9327 Год назад

I flew in a Beverley from RAF Bahrein to RAF Sharjah in 1963 and Sharjah back to Bahrein in 1964

@pierevojzola9737 2 месяца назад

Hi, in those days Sharjah was just a big fishing village known for its black pearls. Only place where I saw one of our Paras caught in an updraft when we did a practice jump (3 Para) on the airfield. It seemed strange to be all suited up for a jump and wearing a life jacket! Never did find out if those jackets worked. Cheers mate. Harera

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman Год назад

Definitely a unique looking airplane...👍

@martentrudeau6948 Год назад

I'm US born, 70 y.o. and I've never seen anything else like it. It must have done a good job and had good flying characteristics, because the Brits liked it. It's certainly interesting to look at and has a lot of personality. Great video.

@28ebdh3udnav Год назад

Theres something about planes like this that is just so beautiful ti watch. Same would go for the Boxcar.

@hairyferrit Год назад

Used to have one of these at Southend Air Museum and you could climb into all parts of it. Shame that it was cut up and only the cockpit survives. My father hated these planes, but only because whenever he was in a drop, his landrover was always broken by the landing :)

@rsqyoung Год назад

In the 1960's you could look into the sky and always see at least one Beverley round Oxford. If you couldn't see it you could hear it. If you looked long enough you might see it move. Replaced by Argosy's Abingdon, Benson and Weston on the Green were regular haunts