Aren’t you thinking of the Bristol Frighterner! Travelled from Penang back to Singapore in a RNZAF beast on Nimrod MARDET. God awful, and I’m an ex Shack driver🤬

@@geoffnottage8894 These were operated in New Zealand. One is still here and I believe it still flies.

The last flying Argosy is now on display in Marlborough NZ. There is a video documenting its preservation.

Did the same in 1975,but this time in a Belfast.Great flight in another rarity!

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I think that may have been a Bristol Freighter. Those were used on the cross channel routes from Lydd.

​@@annoyingbstard9407 yes you are right. They were operated by Silver City Airways and used to transport cars and racehorses over to Le Touquet in France. Silver City also used Bristol Superfreighters which were a stretched version of the Freighter. But you probably knew all that, being an annoying b'stard...

Sounds impressive! I congratulate your early achievements. You must be a skilled individual! We need more people like you in the workplace.

did you know Geoff Tedstill ??

yes they served the Channel Islands. I flew horses on them. Far better than the Bristol Freighter.

That panel was graduated, like a bomb-sight, which made accurate dispatching much easier. The panel was just forward of the escape hatch, which one had to lay on top of to view the approaching DZ. It was rather a strange feeling, knowing that, if the hatch activated, it was a long way down...

Were they more pleasant to jump from than a Herc too? What was the turbulence like as you stepped out the back door?

@@HistoryNeedsYou An RAF para mate, who jumped from both, has told me that the Argosy was better to jump from, either from the tail or side doors, with a lot less turbulence. I presume that this was because of the Argosy's different aerodynamics, due to the twin boom configuration - although personally, I prefer not to abandon a perfectly serviceable aeroplane!

Such a great aircraft. I raise my tea to your dad and all his colleagues at AW.

Nor by me, either. My father was an AID Inspector for AWA at Baginton and Bitteswell for 30 years until they closed.

Such a rich area of automotive and aeronautical manufacture back in the day, my workshop is just off the end of the runway at Baginton in a small holding , amazing history and legacy , the Alvis aero engine building is still there too .

I was in the USAF and saw an Argosy land at Pease AFB NH in 1965.

@@kanome123 Small world my three daughters all live up around Portsmouth NH, my trip in this Argosy must have been 1980 I think..... it was the last one that the Military owned(although it wasn't in the RAF by then)

@@mjc8281 Even more amazing. After my time in the USAF and in fact quite a few years later, I went to work for Zantop Airlines who at one time flew the Argosy. I started with Zantop in 1985 in Macon Georgia. I flew on company business many times on the Locheed L188 Electra the DC8, and an exciting trip on a Convair, however Zantop had already stopped operating the Argosy so I missed that opportunity.

Same problem with the Viscount , ear plugs needed !

@@banky4943 I thought it was the Whistling Wheelbarrow

@@timhancock6626 At Benson, back in the day, we called it the Flying Tit - because of the shape of the nose and radome, of course. The Whistling Wheelbarrow nickname came later.

@stephen turner It's because i'm very proud of my Father's acheivements in the aircraft industry my friend. You sound very upset?

@@markbennett2170 stay proud, I have had the pleasure of working with someone who worked in the design department of one of our aviation companies and then went on to work for other companies, it was important work, without the backup we have today, and take so much for granted, Cosford by the day is a great museum and well worth a look.

@@bfc3057 My dad started his PPL when I was about 5. He took a job as a lineman at the FBO to help defray the costs. My sister and I did touch and gos with him while he was training, and made friends with all the airplanes. We had a little piper cherokee named Charlie, too. Dad went on to be an instructor, then to open an FBO, which was my first job at age 15. I eventually outgrew having to go say hello to my favorite airplanes and offer then candy, but I never outgrew a fondness for them, like a plush animal, only... bigger. Somewhere, there is a photograph of me and my little sis hugging Horatious. We can just reach his chin, under that big, silly black nose, so it's less of a hug and more of a pat. But we really, truly adored him just as if he were a favorite teddy.

@@bfc3057 I'm so relieved to know it's him. His brother was sold to a museum of flight in Iowa, which is where Wikipedia lists him, but I am fairly certain he was actually sold on to Yankee Air Museum in Willow Run and destroyed in the fire in 2004, though I can't verify that.

@@bfc3057 Honestly, I have sort of kept tabs on both planes for a while, because I loved them as a child and wanted to know, one way or another. I have often said that if I won the lottery (which I don't play, so take that as you will), I would buy one of them and make a home out of him for the sake of some kind of preservation, as it really does pain me to see them pass out of history. But either way I am always curious of their current disposition.

@@bfc3057 I would quite like to know!

Thank you my friend. I filmed, edited and wrote this series. My partner in HNY did the v/o. She nails voice overs in one take every time!

HistoryNeedsYou well done, it's very professional. 👌

The front should be flesh colored , flying boob , for similar size a c130 had a third more payload

Gosh, those would be arduous journeys! RAF personnel were, and are, made of though stuff! Per Ardua ad Astra!

My Father AEOP William McGuire flew in these....he preferred the Beverly as it was more able to handle rough terrain

I think she meant service in the RAF; the C-130 entered RAF service in 1967; it should have been years before then, but slow thinking at MOD delayed its arrival in the RAF.

@@Firebrand55 Yeah, there are over 40 different variants of the C-130 and close to 3000 produced, it's one of the greatest aircraft ever designed and still in production after 67 years.

Or live in Jersey ,Channel Islands, with a bedroom right under flight path. :-) Them were the days.

Yeah, that sounds more believable. With a 345 mile range I was kind of wondering how it would be used!

Is that a ferry range? She indicated full load range. Big difference. But, yeah, 345 sounds low even for full load range.

do you thing she got the range distance wrong.as a para trooper im sure i flew further than that in one go.

i just looked it up .in the 1920s there was a 3 engined argosy with that range.

According to someone in the thread above that used to actually fly them she missed off a zero! "Range was a theoretical 3,450 statute miles, although from memory I think that's unloaded."