Congratulations, Tim!
Depends on what you’re looking for, but have you tried the National Archives?
Yes, but no immediate success. Its the test flying I’m after, any kind of records of the pilots test flying the Spitfires and so on. If any records available. Yeovilton is quite far away when you live in Norway and visit the UK three times a year 🙂
DCK, I presume you’ve had a look at the relevant volumes from the “Actions Stations” and “Action Stations Revisited” series of books, and also at “Hampshire Airfields in the Second World War”?
I assume there are entries for Worth Down in all three books, though they are probably fairly superficial given the nature of each book series. Let me know if you want me to check my copies of each when I get home tonight.
Paul F
Hello Paul.
No I have not actually. Could you give it a check for me?
Lovely photo!
Beat up and then down safely from what FR tells me
G-FURY comes to mind…
I had a familiar experience just lately – I think it can be found on this forum actually.
Zazzle deleted my Hawker Hurricane shirt from the “shop” I had. It was my photo, and the roundel had been copied and pasted from the photo in question. HAC Hurricane from 2011. I thought it was the NAME itself – Hawker Hurricane that was the problem. It was not. Zazzle told me it was the roundel itself that was the issue, and removed the shirt. They do this at once. Anyone can basically drop them an e-mail and say this and this shirt violates copyrights. Bang, shirt deleted.
So, I removed the HAWKER name and re-uploaded it, still not knowing it was the roundel. Its been online for a few months now (no sales, but its not the point). So, whenever the RAF got nothing better to do and my shirt gets deleted (once again) I will simply re-upload again. I refuse to cooperate with this nonsense. Like they say on WIX, instead of trying to argue with a system, just re-upload. Give it another year and some silly RAF boy might find it again – and give notice. Shirt deleted. Re-upload.
Quick and effective 🙂 Thanks 🙂
I looked through operations between 6th of June until 20th 1944, and I can’t find AR296 anywhere. 234 Squadron. Only AR in the squadron is AR343.
On the 17th?
Date fits perfectly. So no collision, simply struck off charge.
“Tempest Pilot” by Jim Sheddan DFC
My personal fave
Its worth noting that some private organisations have been offering a sit in a Spitfire for a fee – warts and all.
Bruce
I told them this specific fact. They just shrugged and said “they have taken it to a business level”.
Even so, they even started with arguments against this rule which leads me to belive someone, somewhere have told the museum to follow the rule.
I remember back in 1986 someone sitting in the very same Spitfire. I guess he’s dead now. By radiation 😛
Thought it was pretty insulting, but I wasn’t the one in the center of attention so kept quiet.
Once you’ve been Akaryised, you’ve been Akaryised. Its a disease. I have been infected. I deeply apologise.