Off the top of my head I cannot remember whose location tab says he is in Penicuik. However, whilst doing something else entirely, I found this. Just scroll down to the bottom and see number 17. No link to the text sadly but…
http://www.it-serve.co.uk/poetry/Mcgonagall/mcgonagallhome.php
Adrian 😀
(Edit: Amazing what can be done wiv a Google!)
http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/poems/mpgpencuik.htm
I’ll go away to let you talk planes and abuse Steve Patterson now….
By: DazDaMan - 4th March 2005 at 08:30
Very interesting….!!
By: Merlin3945 - 3rd March 2005 at 23:04
That’d be a Mk1, wouldn’t it? (Or if not, then a MkV that started out as one?)
There’s a subject for a model…! 😉
Aha the plot thickens. On consulting my little book of spitfire I noticed that the aircraft was struck off charge after this accident but then went to Scottish Aviation Ltd.
Heres a breakdown of what I can make sense of.
Supermarine Spitfire R7152 MK1E fitted with a Rolls Royce X engine. 1481st aircraft off the production line. First flight 24/02/1941. Taken on charge with 9 MU on 26/02/1941 and then on to 123 Sqn on 22/06/1941 before going onto 58 OTU on 02/10/1941 and being crashed on 05/10/1941. It was then struck off charge but the date given contradicts the data previous so will assume that instead of the date being SOC 01/10/1941 that it is in fact 11/10/1941. It was then cancelled and went to Scottish Aviation LTD and onto 61 OTU on 16/6/1942 presumable after extensive repair at Scottish Aviation LTD. The aircaft then goes onto 76MU on 10/10/1942 and onto Tarantia in November 1942. Then it goes to Port Sudan 29/01/1943 before going to the Middle East on 28/02/1943 and finally being struck off charge on the 01/03/1943.
Wonder how it ended it days. Is it some pots and pans in the Middle East or is it waiting to be discovered. Perhaps we will never know.
By: DazDaMan - 3rd March 2005 at 21:47
That’d be a Mk1, wouldn’t it? (Or if not, then a MkV that started out as one?)
There’s a subject for a model…! 😉
By: Merlin3945 - 3rd March 2005 at 19:03
Well not entirley bang in the centre of Penicuik but heres a snippet.
Spitfire R7152 from 58 OTU based at Grangemouth crashed 5 miles NW of Penicuik during a cross country exercise. The aircraft flew into high ground.
The Pilot survived.
By: Der - 3rd March 2005 at 18:04
Yes, and even the residents of Cumbernauld reckon the place should be demolished, according to a recent poll.
By: Robert Whitton - 3rd March 2005 at 14:52
To be fair to Mcgonagall the locality will have looked somewhat different when he wrote the poem. It does not even feature in the Idler book of “Crap Towns”. Scotland however does feature quite strongly and No 2 is Cumbernauld (even with an airfield)
By: DazDaMan - 3rd March 2005 at 13:16
If you’ve lived there as long as I have….
What is it they say about familiarity breeding contempt? 😉
By: adrian_gray - 3rd March 2005 at 13:00
Tsk, there you are being rude about it without even trying to find if something amazing happened there in WW2…
Fart – no smileys in quick reply!
Adrian
By: DazDaMan - 3rd March 2005 at 12:44
The only tenuous warbird link with Penicuik (that I know of, anyway) is that the Luftwaffe raid on the RN ships in the Firth of Forth overflew it on their way to attack.
There’s bound to be others, obviously, but I haven’t really looked into the town’s wartime history, to be honest. 😮
By: adrian_gray - 3rd March 2005 at 12:39
That’d be me, then 😉
Don’t believe a word of that poem, though!!
Coo, that was fast! I was still changing the title, having found a post from you!
Adrian
By: DazDaMan - 3rd March 2005 at 12:37
That’d be me, then 😉
Don’t believe a word of that poem, though!!
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