Daz, don’t know the date, but will pop into the shop again when I get the chance.

Geoff.

I was browsing in a local bookshop, when I came across a book on wartime Kent which had a photo of a crashed Stuka beside a broken off RDF mast. The Stukas code began ‘W8′ IIRC. This and the way the mast was broken off at about 20’/30’ (reminded me of an image I think I saw here) made me think it was really from the ‘BoB’ film rather than an actual 1940 image.

Geoff.

Bethlehem South (on the Far East London Line)

I wish I had a photo of the Battle that our local ATC unit had during the war to play with. It was the trainer version with the two single cockpits & had been in France during the Blitzkreig.

If they’d built the twin-engined Battle proposed by Fairey in 1933… ‘The Battle File’ by Air-Britain says at one point ‘The Ministry was also interested in posible conversions of Battles to take P24 or Sabre engines for use as cannon armed fighters’!!

Geoff.

I was amused by the sign at Dux yesterday.

‘Veteran Aircrew Signing Today’

The thought of scribbling my signature on an eighty-year old hero’s arm sort of tickled my sense of the absurd.

Moggy 🙂

It makes me smile when I see ‘Hand shredders’ (VERY painful 😮 ) or ‘Home laminators’ (how do you get out of the house :confused: ) on sale.

Geoff.

Benno,

Have you tried this appeal here on the Czech airmen in the RAF forum? http://cz-raf.hyperlink.cz/index.html

Geoff.

The problem was that WW2 came too early for the German Navy, IIRC their building plan envisaged no war until 1946. See here for more on the ‘Z plan’ http://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/zplan/index.html

Arado Ar195 http://www.luftfahrtmuseum.com/htmi/itf/ar195.htm

Arado Ar197 http://www.luftfahrtmuseum.com/htmi/itf/ar197.htm

Fieseler Fi167, Bf 109 T, Ju 87C/D http://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/aviation/carrierbased/index.html

Geoff.

Has no one seen the Whitley parked outside at Hendon?