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Even though they were used as a utility aircraft, like the Beech-18, seems some were armed. Enemy aircraft would have a field day against it's slow speed!
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Today's aviation mystery photo!
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Not in Britain said Timmy... who drives a Norton 
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Another clue to location:
Faithful Annie
Oh, the Crane may fly much faster
Inside she may be neat,
But to me the draughty Anson
Is very hard to beat.
Her plywood may be warping,
Her window glass may crack,
But when you start out in an Anson.
You know that you'll come back.
-Andy, No. 7 SFTS (Fort Macleod) 1943
Faithful Annie
Oh, the Crane may fly much faster
Inside she may be neat,
But to me the draughty Anson
Is very hard to beat.
Her plywood may be warping,
Her window glass may crack,
But when you start out in an Anson.
You know that you'll come back.
-Andy, No. 7 SFTS (Fort Macleod) 1943
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If it isn't Britain is it Canada?
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See post #2 for hint.
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Avro Ansons in better times.
The photo in post #1 shows "Gravitas", a memorial to (1) the Avro Anson, especially the Anson named "Faithful Annie", and its role in pilot training during WW2, (2) the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, and (3) a reminder of who we are, what we need to overcome, and to what we might aspire. Gravitas is near Cayley, Alberta.
The rest of the story:
https://www.vintagewings.ca/Vintage...ticleView/articleId/534/Circle-of-Sorrow.aspx
https://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/gravitas.html
The Bomber Command Museum of Canada:
https://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca
Aerial view of Cayley:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/C...f8dfa8842a14b85!8m2!3d50.450211!4d-113.850782
TM
The photo in post #1 shows "Gravitas", a memorial to (1) the Avro Anson, especially the Anson named "Faithful Annie", and its role in pilot training during WW2, (2) the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, and (3) a reminder of who we are, what we need to overcome, and to what we might aspire. Gravitas is near Cayley, Alberta.
The rest of the story:
https://www.vintagewings.ca/Vintage...ticleView/articleId/534/Circle-of-Sorrow.aspx
https://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/gravitas.html
The Bomber Command Museum of Canada:
https://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca
Aerial view of Cayley:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/C...f8dfa8842a14b85!8m2!3d50.450211!4d-113.850782
TM
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It does bear a striking resemblance to the Beech 18 (except the tail of course)
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Seems like the Brits used a lot of wood and fabric building some of their aircraft. Not sure how true it is, but I was told they had so many highly experienced furniture wood workers, they put them to work building aircraft. For one, I believe the famed Lancaster bomber has a lot of wood in it along with metal. I heard, not to long ago, the Brits completely restored the only, now, airworthy Lancaster-Just Jane. 
NX611-Just Jane during restoration.
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NX611-Just Jane during restoration.
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Paul- you'll appreciate this quotation:
"In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set – then at least I'll own something that has always worked."
Hermann Goering, 1943, quoted in Boog's 2006 "Germany and the Second World War: Volume VII: The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia, 1943-1944/5".
"In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set – then at least I'll own something that has always worked."
Hermann Goering, 1943, quoted in Boog's 2006 "Germany and the Second World War: Volume VII: The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia, 1943-1944/5".
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Paul, it's hard to say Just Jane is the only airworthy Lancaster when it is photographed on the ground and there is another in the air flying over it. 
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Paul, it's hard to say Just Jane is the only airworthy Lancaster when it is photographed on the ground and there is another in the air flying over it.
I agree Walter, just the story I read said it was the only one airworthy, but we know better now.
