Even easier if it has been transferred to the archive.

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/archive/index.php?t-84706.html

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Ross

Agree with all the comments on Deoxy-C.

I use it extensively on the Anson II components to slow down 60+ years of atmospheric corrosion.

My tweak is to drop a couple of tropical fish tank heaters into the solution to maintain temp at around 35 deg.

Once cleaned with Deoxy-C I then give an additional degrease with acetone or white spirit and then coat with a microcrystaline wax to fill the corrosion pockets and exclude air from unpainted surfaces.

I use the wax as a electrolytic barrier between pieces when I connect them back into an assembly.

More info for the wax is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Wax.

Used to use it for coating suits of armour in the local museum. Removal is relatively easy using acetone in small areas but needs H&S care on larger surfaces.

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Ross

Hi Tim.

F/O Henlow Home Aircraft Depot Under instruction, posted in 1 Aug 1929

F/L Charles F C Coaker was Equipment Staff, Stores Section of Central Area, posted in 27 Oct 1933.

Equipment Staff, stores Section of No.1 Bomber Group, posted in 1st May 1936

Supernumerary at Coastal Command HQ, posted in 12 Dec 1936 listed as for Duty RAF Detachment Bermuda.

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Ross

Stendec7

I suspect the crash you are talking about was that of L7035 of 2 AGS from Dalcross.

c/n 86.
Delivered to 19 MU 07/07/40.
Transferred 307 Sqn 14/09/40.
Pilot retracted u/c instead of raising flaps at end of landing run at Kirton-in-Lindsay 05/10/40.
Overshot runway at Jurby, Isle of Man, due to oil on windscreen; one man injured.
Transferred to Reid & Sigrist SAS 06/12/40.
Transferred to 46 MU 10/10/41.
Transferred to 2 AGS 08/11/41.
Engine cut on camera gun exercise; ditched in Moray Firth.
(Source: The Defiant File, A Brew, ISBN 0 85130 226 2)

Crashed near to shore. Sgt Finney who was wearing an inflated life jacket was rescued by Sgt H Shepherd, 1114117 who swam out from the shore. Sgt Shepherd had observed the crash from the air, landed his own aircraft and boarded the station fire tender to the scene of the accident. The air gunner drowned when the compressed air inflation failed and he failed to orally inflate his mae west after extracating himself from his turret. It was thought that a valve spring fracture was responsible for the forced landing.

Seaplane Tender No.364 was the duty air sea rescue boat at Invergordon and it was ordered to proceed to crash at Chanonry Point and was slipped 18:23 to 20:20 hrs. No.6 a/s rescue unit.

LAC Langley rests in Alford Cemetery, Lincolnshire.

Death register for Langley gives location as off Fishertown, Dalcross at 5:50 pm.

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Ross

Sorry Jerry they were not Coastal Command Assets but Bomber Command ones.

The list is in a “ready info” type book that was created by No.16 Group.

It contained a variety of information that any new Group Officer may need at his fingertips during his watch.

The depth charge loadouts were what he could reasonably expect the aircraft on standard patrol to carry.

In addition where Bomer Command aircraft had been cleared to carry and drop depth charges the list detailed these.

The senario is mass gathering of U-Boats at sea. all Coastal Aircraft used for patrols, call made to all Commands and their aircraft sent on patrol with DCs. Question how may sticks could each type drop before needing to rtb… answer in the ready book.

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Ross

The mail drop crash was Sycamore XG501 on 15th Dec 1955.

F/Sgt P A Beart
Sgt E F Hall

On 10th July 1956 the squadron lost a second aircraft XF265 off the lighthouse after an engine failure.

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Ross

Well if my commission bid (no auctioneer confirmation yet) was used then the Heinz 57 variety Link is coming south.

Looking at the piccys before the auction the lot was not a dismantled D4 but was an incomplete mix of parts from almost every type produced so I treated it as several boxes of bits. A sort through to see how much D4 is present then assess routes to functionality.

Ross

He is lsted as a PoW in my transcription of the 1944 list.

http://www.rafcommands.com/Air%20Force%20PoWs/RAF%20POWs%20Query%20D_1.html

http://www.156squadron.com/display_newpff_roll.asp?ID=97

Scroll down to 11/09/44 and see entry for Lancaster PB510.

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Ross