Thank you Brian, it was a whimsical thought, I really am settled up North with my wee business as an aerial and commercial photographer. Surely the RAf museum could invite some aviation people to a networking gathering?
I have just read the article in Aeroplane and her comments leave me concerned. She certainly has a museum background with an aviation interest but lacks the knowledge of an enthusiast who has been around the historic aviation scene for a reasonable time.Perhaps I should put my name forward to help organise the RAF 100 celebrations,a shame I live at the other end of the Uk from Hendon otherwise my suggestion would become a real prospect. I wonder what the museum and MOD would think of creating an action group of informed stalwarts to guide the centenary into becoming a really special event.?
Ahh, I have not yet collected the magazine. Her comments reveal the need to be better informed which is something easily sorted if she is willing to learn from others.No doubt the interview will reveal heR background.
I tried again to watch it but gave up, I much prefer this telling of the story which was a TV series movie,The Tuskegee airman
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114745/
This pic in the link does have that type of hut behind the Herald http://thumbs4.picclick.com/d/l400/pict/391543821823_/British-United-Handley-Page-Herald-G-APWF-at-Newcastle.jpg
and the colour scheme is here…https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7202/6890685597_383220225f_b.jpg
The Herald is in the marks of British United CI, Ambassador BKS and possibly a Viscount behind.
http://website.lineone.net/~biggles200/History.htm
So Newcastle Woolsington or Leeds? The wooden hut is typical wartime RAF as I recall identical at Blackpool Squires Gate.
As you suggested,tracking . Otherwise any reference would become long winded ” That Hurricane which used to be at the Siddal auction rooms,then Upton camp marked USW but dont think its the same one that was displayed at Earls Court in the same markings,they were both replicas “
Also in the early days of aviation several flyers had no identity, home builders also produced all sorts of craft some never flew and it can take time for the real identity to be re discovered on some airframes so a BAPC serial helps track.
British aircraft preservation council.
good work keeping these records…mention of a typo reminds me of the hundreds of times that the press refers to hand gliders.
Inverness is growing fast, many people are retiring here having sold property in the South of the UK and cashing in on the price difference. I know . we dont have the sun and heat of Portugal Spain etc but those who like the outdoor activities and wide open unspoiled spaces nearby do want to live here. Its certainly not expanding because of employment prospects!
Very few capital projects have as much impact as a sustained house building process, the private sector makes money from this and the high price of suitable land in the South makes old airfields very attractive prospects. This also will apply to former Army estates and my local Fort George has accessible areas of flat land in use as firing ranges which will be probably housing in 20 years time.
To enable squadrons to form up together in daylight prior to the raid at a time of radio silence?
Dont forget Kermit Weeks ….1 complete dry stored and two lots of spares…
https://www.facebook.com/KermitWeeks/photos/a.929460523789694.1073742475.271937182875368/929460563789690/?type=1&theater
Well said David, the Elvington museum is one of the best memorial sites combining displays,buildings and aircraft with care.
Brackla has mostly returned to farming, currently pigs rather than arable.There is a large area of river gravels fringing the North dispersals with patches of undergrowth. It is rumoured that bits left over from scrapping operations might be buried but my air surveys dont show any clear signs of old pit areas just a variety of old river channels.