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By: 21st January 2010 at 07:35 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-W.W.I Survivors by Ray Rimmell would perhaps be your best start.
By: 21st January 2010 at 10:30 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Dave,
I've requested some help regarding Le Bourget BE-2c.
Will keep you posted by email.
Ben
By: 21st January 2010 at 12:48 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-The IWM BE2c was with a Home Defence Squadron, Dover I think. Would look great with the covered over front cockpit and a pair of upward firing Lewis'
By: 21st January 2010 at 17:13 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-W.W.I Survivors by Ray Rimmell would perhaps be your best start.
Dave/James,
this book gives limited information as follows
IWM BE2c 2699
Served with No 50 Home Defence Squadron based at Dover
Built by Ruston, Proctor and Co in Lincolnshire in 1916.
There must be a typo in the book because it suggests that after service with 50HDS, transferred to 190 Night Training Squadron in April 1918, and to 192 NTS in October 1918. It then says that it served with 51 Sqn for the last two months of its service and was wfu in May 1918 following a forced landing. Some of the years identified must be wrong - either it was with the NTS during 1918 and withdrawn in 1919 or it was with the NTS during 1917 and withdrawn in 1918. There is no date given for its transfer to the IWM.
Le Bouget's BE2c 9969
No service information - just that it was Blackburn-built for the RNAS
Norwegian BE2e 131
The picture in the book says F1380, the text says A1380. Purchased from surplus RAF stocks in 1917
HTH
sk
By: 21st January 2010 at 22:10 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Thanks gents. I hope to track down more info through the museums themselves.
regards
Dave
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By: DaveM2 - 21st January 2010 at 01:20
All
Does anyone have a potted history of these three machines?
TIA
Dave
ROYAL AIRCRAFT FACTORY BE-2c, 9969
Musee de l'Air et de l' Espace, Le Bourget, Paris, France
ROYAL AIRCRAFT FACTORY BE-2e, ex F1380, Norwegian ‘131’
Forsvarets Flysamling Gardermoen, Oslo, Norway
ROYAL AIRCRAFT FACTORY BE-2c, 2699
Imperial War Museum, London, UK.