The last Blackburn Beverley
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- Опубликовано: 20 апр 2024
- So today I get an exclusive look at the last remaining Blackburn Beverley XB259 “Big Bev” ahead of her move to Solway Aviation Museum.
I join the team that will be dismantling her and moving her from Fort Paull near hull to their museum near Carlisle Airport, where she will be fully restored and preserved for future generations.
Myself and Adi from Blown8cylinder will be helping the team over this year…
So let’s take a look! #history #education #aircraft #raf #blackburnbeverley #historicaircraft #aircraft #aircraftengineer
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Wow, incredible news to know she is being saved! My Uncle flew Beverleys! In fact, I think he may have flow this one!
Fantastic and informative video mate, good effort, Thank you for making this 🙂👍
OK, I have to leave a comment for this video. In the 1970s we came over from Canada to see my Uncle, who was in the RAF, posted at Leconfield I believe. He took Dad and I to an old airfield nearby and there was a Beverley there, which may have been this one except it was white and silver. He said it was there because they were going to start a museum and there were some other artifacts scattered around including a Bedford QL fuel bowser, identical to the one in the Airfix kit. I was thrilled and the Beverley, which was very complete, looked like it had flown in recently. We climbed all through it and I still have a picture of me sitting in the cockpit. I always wondered what happened to it but even if this may be a different one, I am happy that it has survived. Thank you for a great video.
It is indeed the very same aircraft! It was flown into Paull airfield in the 1970’s, then in 83 moved to the army transport museum Beverly by road (just down the road from leconfield) there it stayed till the museum closed in 2003, when it then was moved to Fort paull… and now it’s heading across the UK too Solway aviation museum to be restored back to her original livery and condition!
If you find Solway aviation museum or my own page on Facebook we’d love to see your picture and share the memory with us!
Keep an eye out for part two of this series out Sunday 7:20pm gmt! And there’s more to come… also look out for videos on a Bedford QL we have at RAF Snaith Museum !
What a gorgeous old girl, good to know she's being saved.
i remember climbing the bulkhead to get in the tale loaded with gear heading for kuwait operation vantage 2nd bat coldstream guards departing bahrain muharraq
@@peterdickenson424You were lucky to be departing Muharraq, we (3Para) got stuck on that airstrip for a year on our first tour . Cheers mate. Harera
Great to read that this super old aircraft will survive for future generations. Marvellous
So cool.....I remember the one at Hendon years ago....
That brought back memories, when I was a kid I use to sit in the cockpit of Beverley C.1 XB261that was on display at the SHAM (Southend Historic Aircraft Museum) next to Southend Airport Essex. sadly when the museum closed she was scrapped because of bad corrosion but the cockpit survived and is now on display at the Newark Air Museum.
The lads from SAM was there last week looking at that cockpit for info on how she comes apart
I was here to write exactly the same thing. Used to love that museum. The Heinkel always got extra attention. I vaguely remember going to a car show there and seeing a car with a Merlin engine in it.
I HAVE SIMULATOR FLY Blackburn Beverley. I LOVE FLY THIS FUNNY AND GREAT AIRCRAFT. 😍❤👍
Great video thank you , hope she can have a future 👍🇬🇧
Awesome I was worried about her getting scrapped glad she’s going to a good home and staying as a plane a truly fitting home for her
Such a shame to see her like that but great to know she's going to get some tlc. Before she was taken to the Fort she was landed at my grandparents at the old paull airfield which used to be Bristows Heliport, unclear on all details as i was small, my grandma would know more, but I know she was involved in some parties at the farm :) then later again at the Fort for my grandparents anniversary party. Would love to see her when she's restored. Sadly grandad is no longer with us or he would have loved to have been involved in this, he absolutely loved this plane and had books, books and more books about war time military transport, he would have been thrilled to know she has a new home.
Lovely thing to read….
Can you contact Solway Aviation Museum, and share it with them too? You can find them on Facebook.
The 🐦 birds singing in the back ground sounds amazing 😎✌️
Great to see this.
Back in 1974 my mate and I had just arrived in England from NZ on our OE .While driving around we saw this great big aircraft sitting out in the open . We didn't know what it was , but we were very impressed.
I still have the photo , and thanks to the internet know a lot of this aircrafts great service record.
Thanks for posting.
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Military Aircraft are not in a beauty competition and operational performance is what matters .It was a brilliant Tactical Transport . I flew as a co-pilot in Aden (Yemen) in No.84squadron . The Army loved the aircraft . It could transport 44 personnel in the boom and very heavy loads of freight in the main compartment .
I’m sure Solway Aviation Museum would love to hear from you! There’s links in the description
I bought a rivet of this aircraft when it was in the car park at the transport museum way back in the eighties I'd think as some kind of fund-raiser. Glad to hear it has found a new home.
Great video. As an ex Broughie myself I look forward to her being saved for future generations. ❤
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Great to have a peek inside the cockpit, amazing how complete she is. Glad shes been saved and will be there for future generations to enjoy. Do we know when they are planning to move the main hull?
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Great video lots of work to move it over to solway hope all goes well..
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Thanks for this wonderful video.
Thank you for watching! I’m glad you enjoyed it, I’m no professional with a camera as you will see from my other videos… but I’ll do my best to keep the Beverly footage coming, as well as what we are doing at RAF Snaith Museum, and alt the other stuff you see on the channel.
Here's to a successful move and long life for the old girl.
She's in a tragic state. I hope there will be plenty of volunteers at her new home, who can bring her back to some sort of respectable condition for viewing. To do the whole aircraft would take twenty years!! God knows what the cost would be. But if she can be secured and at least made weather proof again so she looks fairly original from outside, that would be a start.
As a child in the 1970's, I visited some cousins in Essex and we were taken for a day out in glorious sunshine, to Southend Aircraft Museum. There was a Beverley there and I clearly recall the vast cavernous size, being amazed that you could 'go upstairs' and sitting in the left hand seat up in that cockpit and being totally blown away at the height and vast size of the aircraft. It was a powerful memory for a small boy who was already completely lost to aviation! I also found that a hatch had been left open on their ex Spanish air force He111...... The aircraft was roped off with signs saying no public access. I was normally a very meek and polite child who didn't get into trouble but was compelled to have a look! While no one was looking, I climbed inside and remember sitting in the cockpit and kneeling right forward in the nose glazing, as well as 'exploring' the rest of it very thoroughly before my mother and aunt realised I was missing in action! I made it out undetected and joined up with the rest of the group...😂 Happy days!
Was that the same aircraft that was used for the cross-channel air ferry?
@@alanbeckett4 Hello, for some reason, my previous replies to this question don't seem to be posting...🤔Anyway, trying once more! As far as I was aware, the Beverley was not used for cross channel ferrying of cars. There was a bespoke Bristol 'Carveyor' aircraft operating out of Southend and I certainly recall it being there on my visit as a child. I don't remember if it was a retired exhibit by then, or still in fact operational. (Early 1970's?)
The Beverly we saw and crawled all over, was in well worn RAF colours, I seem to remember a grey and white scheme, but it was a very long time ago now! Maybe someone out there with more detailed info on that particular airframe will fill in any blanks.
@@alanbeckett4No they used Carvairs and Bristol Freighters
Great video. About 10-12 years ago I was doing some lift supervisor training at Hird on English street in Hull. On the wall we’re a load of pictures of the move to Paull showing their involvement. They may or may not be interested in helping again, I have no idea as I have no connections with them and don’t want to speak on there behalf, but there may be someone still working there with some useful knowledge about the move. I believe theirs may be the blue cranes the chap in the video mentioned. Hope this helps and good luck on a safe move.
Worth a look!
'Ahhhhh Beverley' - Picard
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Remember seeing one in 86 on the burning area at RAF Manston … 😢😢
I remember one being outside southend, essex airport for years. Now scrapped. XB261
....since I knew the Bev I wanted to see some interior details. Thanks for this video and good luck...
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Wow talk about coincidence i was telling my wife about these aircraft then this popped up on RUclips I remember these as grew up late 50’s 60’s watching them practice dropping gear n I think para’s for the army at Watchfield in Berkshire.
As boys we may have got it wrong but we called it ‘heavy drop’ anyway we thought it was very cool as you could get very close due too road running from Watchfield to Highworth. Good luck guy n girls with this venture.......... Robert Smith expat
I have heard that preserving a Blackburn Beverley is no easy task because at the time they were using a new aluminium alloy which was stronger but as it turned out was very prone to corrosion
A cursory glance and she’s fairing well considering she was next to the salty Humber estuary for the last 20years and was built nearly 70 years ago… but ultimately she’s never gonna fly again, but is more than strong enough to live on as a static display for another 70 years with the right TLC…
What a thing!
I worked on these aircraft (Airframes) when I was in the RAF from 1957. I was sent to RAF Dishforth from Training to join 242 OCU (Operational Conversion Unit). The Beverleys we had at that time were Xl 103, XL130, XL132, XY148, XL149 and we later had XB 259 which I believe this one is. In 1962 we transferred the whole of 242 OCU down to RAF Thorney Island together with the Hadley Page Hastings. and I left the RAF in 1965 just as the Hercules C130 was being introduced to replace the Beverley.
You’re the kinda chap we need!!!
I was also a rigger, but was too late for the Bev when I joined (1975). I remember the Bevs from my childhood in Aden.
My time was working VC10s and Harries, then a long time on RSS Abingdon.
@@TheBioniXman please do contact Dougie Kerr at Solway Aviation Museum and tell him about your experience with Beverleys! I’m sure he would love to hear from you! You can find their details in the description
Thanks.
Saw this Blackburn when it was at Beverly it was a wreck then time hasn't done it any favours by look of it. Moving it again to Carlisle won't do it any favours. Might as well scrap it now.
She really isn’t in bad condition structurally, and as a static display she’s just fine… scraping her would be the worst thing…. Going too a home where she’s repaired and restored and loves just as much as we do.
Moving it to Carlisle and the Solway museum will definitely do it a lot of good. Have a look what they did with their Fairey Gannet in only a couple of years.
I was stationed at RAF Finningley 75-77. There was one outside on a pan as an exhibit used on the Battle of Britain open days. Then it was deemed to be too dangerous due to corrosion and it was broken up. Sold for scrap no doubt. There was one outside in the early eighties at Hendon. Don’t know what happened to that one though
I think Hendon cockpit survives but deffo no complete airframes apart from big bev
XH124 was on display at the RAF Museum London, Hendon. Kept outside, the aircraft deteriorated and was scrapped in 1989.
XL149 was scrapped at RAF Finningley in Spring 1977 but the cockpit is preserved at South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum, Doncaster.
saw her when she was at paul airfield
Have you seen part 2?
When I was in Singapore in the 60's my troop travelled everywhere in the Beverleys. Landing on some of the, (Very short) jungle runways was quite interesting. The pilots were amazing.
I too was in Singapore in the early `60s (aged 6!) but remember seeing these Porky Aircraft flying out of Changi. My Father was RM, serving on HMS Bulwark and Anti-Insurgency Ops in Malaya. Some Wag had put a `For Sale` sign on a parked Lancaster, unfortunately my Dad wouldn`t buy it for me!
@@moosifer3321 I had a short stint attached to the R.M. on Albion. Amazing people. They used to call Albion, 'The old grey ghost of the Borneo coast' because wherever there was a bit of bother she just seemed to be there, and the Marines used to hop aboard the choppers and hit them, seemingly out of nowhere. I was based in Seletar with the army.
@@johngoodfellow168 He was shipped on her when, apparently she ran down a Tug in Hong Kong! The `Last Days of Empire`
@@moosifer3321 I think that was when she was on a trip for R and R to give the lads a break. I was back in Malaya then.
Bit young to recall everything, but did the Marines (on R&R!) ever mention `Snowdrop Bashing`?@@johngoodfellow168
It used to be at Weston on the Green, I went past it many times on my way to RAF FAIRFORD.
Not sure if it’s the same plane… this was at fort paull and also Beverley army museum
Definitely not the same aircraft. Sadly none of the others survive, just a couple of cockpit sections.
Prior to being at Beverley Army transport museum, this aircraft was used as the clubhouse for a model flying club. I can't remember it's location, just that it was used as a clubhouse (I was only around 10 years old, back in the 1970's, my memory isn't that good from back then 🙂
Paull airfield…?🤔 that’s where she was before Beverley
@@beardedbodger Yes, that was it! Now I'm beginning to doubt my memory, was it used by a model flying club, or by a "full size" flyiing club?
@@carlwalker7560 both I think
@@beardedbodger Cool in either (or both) cases 🙂 A fitting use for such a plane, IMHO
What a mammoth project this is, just to relocate this monster aircraft, and as for the restoration and re-assembly , well I hope that SAM volunteers will be successful but I fear it will be a very long term and expensive undertaking.
The reality of aircraft preservation/restoration is that it takes time and money.. you can support the project by following the link in the description. All museums desperately need support, not just financial, but also visitors! It is a challenge in the modern age of the internet, but there are a lot of very passionate and experience volunteers out there. I’m sure SAM will smash it!
It's amazing how many ugly and/or useless aircraft were commissioned by the armed forces from Blackburn. How much did it cost to design,test and produce just 49 Beverleys? About the only good looking plane they ever made was the Buccaneer. Can anybody name another?
I have a soft spot for a vampire!
@@beardedbodgerI liked the Vampire. The were stationed at Honely just up the road from our school.
@@davecooper3238 I know where there is one requiring rescue too…..must resist…
Court Line bought a Beverly to transport the RB2-11 engines of its Tristars just in case one went pop down route.
That particular Beverly is at the RAF Museum in Croydon.
The Beverley that had been at the RAF Museum was scrapped back in 1989.
There isn't an RAF museum at Croydon. It's at Hendon and Cosford.
That is a very large biplane!
68 to 71.
I suppose its not the authentic camouflage scheme?
Never saw those 2 colours combining together.
Is this desert camo?
Yeah desert cammo. It was used by other Beverleys… but not this one as far as I know. This paint was applied either by the Beverly museum of army transport or early on at fort paull, as it is better at keeping corrosion at bay rather than the usual silver/white/black/yellow that Big Bev actually had.
I think they flew them out of Oman back in the day
I was talking to a chap at a classic car show and he was telling me that this was being restored to flying condition . I said absolutely no way but he wouldn't have it ! Maybe he's got the £20million plus it would take !!! Thanks
If only…!
It won't ever be airworthy, you'd be replacing so much it would become a replica. I'm not sure even £20 million would do it. It can definitely become a great museum exhibit and if they can one day raise enough for a new building, it can survive far into the future.
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Do the tail, engines, and loading doors still exist, and soon to be reunited with the plane? That wasn’t made clear in the text if the previous owner that removed them kept them, scrapped them, or if they’ve already been moved to the new site.
Yeah they have been removed by the previous owner already
And are on site ready to transport
@@beardedbodger And where are they now?
@@PetesGuide on site
that is an odd ugly plane, its pretty cool though never saw one before thanks for sharing
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This is another example of a large transport aircraft that failed. People don't realize that that Howard Hughes's flying boat was not unique and that other companies built them as well. Most failed because engines needed to get them off the ground hadn't been developed yet. Eventually the Lockheed company built the C-130 that is still successful and later they built the C-117 and C-5 Galaxy. Of course even these and the Spruce G Goose were dwarfed by the truly huge Antonov AN-225. It's good to see the Beverley being saved as we need to remember our history, and it's very good to see somebody doing a video of her!
The Beverley is an petrol engine aircraft which served for decades, the next generation of turboprop aircraft are of course in a different class, so production of further Beverly's ceased, but the existing aircraft continued to do their jobs - a great aviation success story!
The Beverley was NOT a failure. It served the RAF - and Army - well during its service life. At the time it was the only heavy transport aircraft in NATO service capable of landing on unmade airstrips, deploying paras AND air-drop equipment from the same plane at more or less the same time. Not forgetting it had the ability to reverse on the ground. Again something no other NATO transport of that era could do.
Of course - it wasn't built by Sceptics so yeah, slag it off like you always do .
@@NeilPlucknett The Lockheed Constellation had the ability to reverse in 1939 and was used as a transport plane by both the US Army and US Navy during the war. In addition, Fairchild built the C-82 during the war and later built 1,100 of the C-119 "flying Boxcar" . Then there were the numerous sea planes like the Martins, and the Douglas DC-4 and 6 that carried far more cargo then the Beverly did over longer distances. While the RAF did fly Beverlies, they relied on the large American built cargo planes for long distance, reliable, flying duties.
Sad to see the condition that she has been allowed to deteriorate into, the Solway Museum have a massive job on their hands.
It did a good job regarding operation vantage i flew in to Kuwait from Bahrain bit rough climbing into the tale loaded with as much gear we could carry but really enjoyed the flight 1960 i visited it at the Bevely museum it was wonderful to see it there No one company coldstream guards were dug in round the airport we watched them non stop flying in
Way to spoil a video! Stop putting writing all over the screen! Keep it to small font and only 2 or 3 lines at the bottom.