Anzac16 Posted 6 May , 2011 Author Share Posted 6 May , 2011 I don't have that book is there a posabillaty i can have one of the pictures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasta72s Posted 10 May , 2011 Share Posted 10 May , 2011 I thought I have one of the afore mentioned pictures but could not find the German source book. In fact the downing of C27 was used as motif of German postcards. It looks like the following little picture from the Internet: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anzac16 Posted 10 May , 2011 Author Share Posted 10 May , 2011 Thank you Jasta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anzac16 Posted 10 June , 2011 Author Share Posted 10 June , 2011 Today finally put the finishing touches to me Article about the airship the C26 which crasht in Eemnes in 1917. http://www.greatwarcollection.nl/C26/TheC26.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasta72s Posted 23 June , 2011 Share Posted 23 June , 2011 Niecely done! It is regreatable that nobodys seems to take notice of your final product. The C27 did not only meet one German seaplane. Friedrich Christiansen / Bernhard Wladicka got the "glory" but historians argue about who got really confirmation for this destroyed airship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anzac16 Posted 23 June , 2011 Author Share Posted 23 June , 2011 Thank you jasta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellman12 Posted 11 June , 2012 Share Posted 11 June , 2012 Thank you all for the above information. My wife is one of Capt. Kilburn's granddaughters and I had the privilege of knowning him in his later life. Gray Campbell Conning Kilburn (no hyphenation by the way; the two middle Christian names are old family names) held pilot's licence No. 90 if memory serves. After internment in Holland he returned briefly to the UK but then emigrated to S. Rhodesia where he farmed until the end of the Second World War. On return to England he raised Jersey cattle in Dorset and died in 1986. He once kindly took me through his photo albums; a quiet giant of a gentleman who almost brushed aside his airship days as though they were a mere inconvenience. (Anything but!!) I attach a photo of Kilburn (on the right) with his great friend Dixon, sadly lost in C27 of course. I'm afraid I don't know anything of the fate of Kilburn's crew; only wish I could go back 30 years and ask him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellman12 Posted 12 June , 2012 Share Posted 12 June , 2012 Also of interest might be this photo of C27's crew lost in the North Sea (Dixon far right). We lent Gray Kilburn's photo albums to the Airship Heritage Trust many years ago; they include the first images they had of the layout at Pulham. The albums then went to the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton and they have copies available for research. (These scans are copyright of the Fleet Air Arm Museum, by the way.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellman12 Posted 12 June , 2012 Share Posted 12 June , 2012 Sorry, photo did not load first time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anzac16 Posted 8 March , 2016 Author Share Posted 8 March , 2016 Bit old topic but today i was fortunate to see a origional pace of the C26.Its a small part of the skin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 1 January , 2017 Share Posted 1 January , 2017 Great thread. I live in Diss which is about 8 miles from Pulham, where C26 and C27 were based. I'm currently modelling C26 on my computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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