Info req: Altitude record breakers Michael Randrup and Walter Shirley

"Krztalizer" wrote in message
...
| I have a pair of mysteries - I recently purchased a pair of crashed
Mosquito
| photos, labeled only as "Farnborough 1944". I cannot narrow it down more
as
| the wreckage is practically unidentifiable.
|
| The only clue came as a separate item - its a certificate titled "Diplome
de
| Record" for a world altitude record flight from 1957. Although there is
no
| guaranteed connection to the Mossie debris photos, these three items came
| together, so its a possibility.
|
| The certificate commemorates a record ascent to 21,430 meters by an
English
| Electric Canberra B. II, WK163, crewed by Michael Randrup and his
observer,
| Walter Shirley, on "28 Aout (?) 1957". The location is either Suton or
Luton
| aerodrome. The certificate has begun to fade, beginning with the signers,
the
| president of the FAI and HR Gillman, the Secretary General of the FAI.
|
| Do these gents still exist? I would be greatly interested to discover if
| either of them were involved in the rather grim looking Mosquito crash.
|
| Thanks for any help you can give.
| v/r
| Gordon
| ====(A+C====
| USN SAR
|
| Its always better to lose -an- engine, not -the- engine.
|



Hi Gordon,


I'll post the pics in abpa in a couople of minutes....






Cheers


Dave Kearton