English heritage are very lazy in this case.The aerial photo community in the Uk is small and mostly friendly. It would take about ten minutes on google and a few phone calls for them to get leads on a lot of this info. They have even employed the UKs top static balloon aerial photographer and surely know that Skyscan now host a big photo library with knowledge of the history of images across the UK?

Or maybe they just want to be given info instead of using a researcher and paying them for a days work !

The Kinloss Shack never made it to the gate because no one could agree about who would look after it. It was a great shame because it had served with several of the squadrons. I did some research into Neptunes and found one with a Kinloss background but again, no interest at official level.

Good luck for those who buy the project. As an aside I met Paul and Liz at Inverness where they used to base a lovely Auster Autocar in the early eighties by which time they were married.They now live in North Yorkshire and own a Tiger and Hornet Moth.

Had a good wander online while looking at the film,
belly landing Paul Mantz from 12 o clock high,

low passes John Crewsden at Bovingdon,

parachutist sadly died filming channel bale out sequence,Mike Reilly,
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1962/1962%20-%200078.html

Interior B17 section was ex Israeli,later scrapped at Croydon.

On our pass out parade the Co of RAF Valley took the salute and in the fog four Gnats flew past , we heard them.

I recall the pic appearing in Control Column

During Taceval on Nato airfields an unexpected aircraft would land and defect.
Markings were applied to Nato aircraft when they landed away which was part of the exercise. The race was then on to correctly recognise the country of origin and get an interpreter.Other planned reactions included armourers working on dummy foreign ordnance which was placed by the aircraft.
The Shack caused one USAF base commander a near heart attack, no one recognised the type on the base and they actually took it for a real Soviet aircraft.Several of the crew spoke Russian and also dressed the part, they toured many bases as a special team and at times their airborne Russian radio calls were answered by Soviet listening posts, which they had to ignore !
You need to remember that aircraft recce skills were not universal outside of gunners, aircrew and ROC members.