Heavy Drops

Heavy drops landing during Exercise Dry Martini, 2 Para, Derna 1959

Hornet being deployed from a RAF Blackburn Beverley

Hornet being deployed by parachute

Humber Hornet rigged for parachuting

Detailed view of Hornet showing the chains attached to the drop platform

Hornet being unpacked and unloaded from a heavy drop platform

Removing packing materials from a Hornet after landing

Hornet being guided from a heavy drop platform on exercise

Load-in of heavy drop supplies and equipment in Cyprus before Operation Musketeer.

A container leaves the aircraft during a re-supply course at RAF Lyneham

Men of 2 PARA stand in front of the remains a 1 Tonner after a Heavy Drop failure at Swindon, late 1950s

AFEE Heavy Drop trial, Jeep, from a Halifax in World War II

6 Pdr Anti-Tank Gun on heavy drop trial by AFEE during World War II

Jeep on a heavy drop trial by AFEE during World War II

Airborne Jeep on Dropping Platform slung beneath a Hastings, c.1948-9

A jeep candles on the Yibneh DZ during Exercise Yeo, Palestine, 1946

Halifax bomber dropping Jeep and containers during a practice run near Netheravon, 1946-47.

Heavy Drop from a Halifax, Ex Longstop Netheravon 1947

Airborne Jeep on a heavy dropping platform to be suspended from underwing of Hastings, c.1948-9

A Heavy Drop in Exercise Leap Year II Canal Zone 1952

Preparing a C119 for Heavy Drop Trials c1953-54

Field Trial Heavy Drop of Artillery, Exercise King's Joker, 1953

A Heavy Drop descends onto Stanford close to observers, Ex King's Joker, 1953

Canadian Snowmobile, Alberta, 1958