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May 30, 2008 at 10:29 am in reply to: Sqn Ldr HS Darley #1170431

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Thanks, Snapper. Wonderful stuff.

Does your contact with the family extend to knowing if they have any photos, documents or other memorabilia of his time specifically in India or Burma? I would be very interested, if they would be willing to share copies.

Regards

Snoopy

May 28, 2008 at 11:11 am in reply to: S/Ldr Michal Cwynar VM DFC R.I.P. #1172544

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Sad. RIP. Hope someone captured his memories, before he passed on.

Regards

Snoopy

May 28, 2008 at 10:28 am in reply to: Sqn Ldr HS Darley #1172643

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Key contributions in India

Snapper, this is marvellous information. If I may ask, where did you get the first, the more detailed biography, from? (The second one you’ve credited to the Daily Telegraph.)

Loved the bits about his contributions in Burma, at the famous 151 OTU and at Staff College in Wellington, in the Nilgiris. The Indian Staff College is still at Wellington, btw; and I am hoping to visit some time – will look for records of his name.

Regards

Snoopy

May 19, 2008 at 3:35 pm in reply to: Seeking info on Airwork Services #1180189

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Airwork Services Training – also with the Indian Air Force

Apologies for the really late post … till I saw the mention in Mark’s article, I wasn’t sure if they were part of the same group, but Airwork Services Training also provided some technical training instructors, for the Indian Air Force, for some years shortly after India’s independence.

There were AST instructors at what the IAF called its Technical Training Centre, outside Bangalore, from about 1949 till some time in the early to mid-1950s. As far as I know it was a fairly peaceful involvement, with no exciting or clandestine incidents such as others on this thread have recounted!

There’s a brief mention at this page, and photographs of two RAF, or former RAF officers, who served as Commandant and Deputy Commandant of the TTC in those years (also, incidentally, of Air Marshal, later ACM, Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman, at that time C-in-C of the RIAF/IAF, and later DCAS and VCAS of the RAF):

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1950s/TTC.html

Just in case of interest … Regards,

Snoopy

July 13, 2005 at 6:07 am in reply to: Jagan – Congratulations on your new book #1394947

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Congratulations, Jagan – looking forward to your next! 🙂

Snoopy

March 31, 2005 at 1:19 pm in reply to: Out and about: Pima Air and Space Museum #1376540

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Still like the B-24.
Andy

In that case, Andy, you may enjoy this link, about that particular B-24:

http://www.warbirdsofindia.com/ovb24-3.html

Regards,

Snoopy

December 8, 2003 at 6:58 am in reply to: Corporal Pilot Basil F Evans. #2098641

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Minimum aircrew rank

I think Ant is right; Sergeant was made the minimum aircrew rank, but also that it was at least few months into the war before those orders were issued.

Corporal Evans may just have died before those orders became effective.

I seem to recall reading that one reason for making Sergeant the minimum aircrew rank, at that time of the war, was that senior NCOs and above, if made POWs, got some slightly better treatment and accommodation — so it was thought to offer some slight protection on those lines to aircrew, who might have to bale out over enemy territory.

Regards,

Snoopy

November 28, 2003 at 11:48 am in reply to: Short Sealand questions #2101893

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IN Survivor

Fwiw, there are glimpses of the Indian Navy survivor (partially obscured, in one case) on these pages:

http://www.warbirdsofindia.com/wbgoa1.html

http://www.goa-world.net/naval/index.htm

Regards,

Snoopy

June 20, 2003 at 5:16 pm in reply to: Cosford? #2109629

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Thanks, Kev — should have known I could count on you!!

Ahh, great pic … I can almost smell that hangar!

Have a great weekend,

Snoopy

June 20, 2003 at 5:01 pm in reply to: An Open Invitation To My Friends Here #2109631

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Snapper, hats off to you … especially for coming up with the fly-by. Hope the weather holds out for it.

And what a priceless collection of historic artefacts you’ve got, there. Look after them. All the best for the event on the 14th, and regards,

Snoopy

June 20, 2003 at 4:16 pm in reply to: Cosford? #2109637

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A Friday evening plug for one of my favourite birds, now nesting at Cosford …

http://www.warbirdsofindia.com/ovb24-1.html

BDP / Vic, check if there’s still a funny placard in the tail turret — it was there last time I visited, but that was a few years ago. Have fun, and take another photo of this bird for me if you can!

Regards,

Snoopy

May 21, 2003 at 9:22 am in reply to: Some recent pics for Messerschmitt-Fans #2116940

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Thanks, Kenneth

Originally posted by Kenneth
Prof. Messerschmitt assisted in the design of the Helwan HA200 in Egypt in the Sixties; a project which I believe was scrapped by President Nasser. The aircraft is not airworthy.

Very nice pictures, Kenneth — thanks for sharing them.

Apologies if this is too obsessive over a tiny detail, but is it possible this aircraft is the HA300 rather than the HA200? The HA300 was Prof Messerschmitt’s delta-winged supersonic design if I remember correctly; the HA200 was a trainer.

Regards,

Snoopy

May 14, 2003 at 3:35 pm in reply to: B24 Liberator #2118248

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Wow, Kev, did you really!!??

Originally posted by kev35
Schanche.

Here’s one I made earlier:) 🙂 🙂 🙂

Regards,

kev35

Hi Kev:

Was that entirely tongue-in-cheek, or did you really have a role in re-building or re-finishing KN751? (I’m sure you’re too young to have been involved in originally building her!)

Btw, Schanche, nice pics, and I hope your father enjoys the process and the result!

Regards,

Snoopy;) 😉

April 28, 2003 at 2:25 pm in reply to: IAF Museum Pics! #2081779

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Spitfire VIII and Wapiti

Ant — Any info Kabir has is more up to date than mine (I haven’t been to Delhi for a while), but some years ago the IAF Museum’s official position on the Spitfire VIII was that it was being “maintained in airworthy condition”, but not flown.

I know that’s something of a contradiction in terms, but at the time there seemed to be good reasons why the Museum was adopting that position, and I think it’s defendable.

AndyXH558 — I think that’s the rear fuselage of the Wapiti you can see, just, behind the nose of the Spitfire XVIII in Kabir’s third picture!

Regards,

Snoopy

February 12, 2003 at 7:14 am in reply to: Percy Leslie Moxey #2092327

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RE: Percy Leslie Moxey

Just a line to add one more to the number who have been following this thread, even without being able to contribute. Nice work, to all who’ve dug out and added info — it is moving to read.

Fwiw, I would just add the thought that most memorials, including the CWGC, don’t seem to differentiate, in any way, between deaths in combat and deaths in flying accidents (of which there might well have been more, than those in combat). Both seem regarded as equally worthy of recognition and remembrance. Military aviation is not, and never was, a risk-free undertaking; and everyone who flies take some chances. I think they all deserve respect, for that, and for other reasons.
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