WW1 RFC finds at Stoneleigh and help please!

Am pretty sure Knots were in use pre-war… sadly no ID numbers on the ring and bead….. 🙁

Did the RNAS use mph or knots,just a thought ? 😀
Any id numbers ?

I would have thought the gunsight was post ww2 as I thought Knots was a psot war thing?
I’ve got the same sight so would also like some confirmation…

I thought that, but 200 knots could be a closing speed, taking into account the speed of another aircraft and your own?

I think the give away is that its marked 200 and 100 knt rings!!! rather fast for WW1 A/C!

The RFC/RAF afaik used mph up until late ww2 and then started a gradual changeover to kts.
But I was asking about the RNAS during ww1,I just wondered if they used kts…being part of the RN

Aviation archaeology?

Picked these up at Stoneleigh today

I didn’t know that Stoneleigh was used for flying, certainly not with Camels, 504s and the like. Were they on the surface or did you have to use a metal detector to locate them!

SE5A – 138mph
Fokker D V11- 125mph

So downhill …a little faster.I assume the rings are for estimating for deflection shooting so for an a/c going more than 100,you would need a faster ring to estimate.
A/C performance from the net,so bound to be accurate LOL:D

I didn’t know that Stoneleigh was used for flying, certainly not with Camels, 504s and the like. Were they on the surface or did you have to use a metal detector to locate them!

The “Militaria” event at the National Agricultural Centre (as was), Stoneleigh. 🙂

Roger Smith

(I drove past it twice but was too busy helping my son move house to actually go in :mad:)

The “Militaria” event at the National Agricultural Centre (as was), Stoneleigh. 🙂

Roger Smith

(I drove past it twice but was too busy helping my son move house to actually go in :mad:)

Saved yourself a lot of money! £10 each to get in – managed to come home with two WW1 60 pounder shells, a bad back, a new shirt, a transport clip for my 18 pounder shell and a virus!

Ha – may have been sold a bit of Massey Ferguson then….:D Alan – any ideas you’re the guru of aeroplane bits?

bits of an old tractor Ben……tee hee

I went to Stoneleigh yesterday, I always go in the hope of Aviation stuff, but on the whole I found it a bit thin on the ground for all concerned?

Good luck with ID!

I got some dimmer switches, 50cal ammo crates a book on ww2 motorbikes and a cold or something not nice aswell!!! maybe the same germ filled git coughed on us both?

all depended upon what you were after…..saw lots of aviation stuff

helmets, bombs, nice luft logbook

thin in terms of number of stalls, some of the old faithfuls were not there this year and a whole shed was missing prob about 1/3 of the stalls.

plt