No good looking in AIR 78 unless you are seeking an OR number.

The London Gazette or Air Force List is the thing for Commissioned Officers

Oct 1944 AFL gives his personal number as 60145.

You can use the LG or AFL to trace his Commissioned career from appointment to retirement or last rank in service before death.

Ross

Hi Gents,

Just got back from an offshore wreck survey to the southern approaches – big boat with big boy toys.

Now catching up with the contact backlog and batch loading the washing machine.

Cees the Hurricane is slowly progressing – eventual plan is for complete fuselage, centre section and tail. Long term goal is recovery diorama on Queen Mary Semi-Trailer. This is dictated by the weight of the merlin and making the display format accessible to most abilities

More of an “as and when” project as it depends on a few rare components becoming available.

What has progressed is the standby project which now whirrs, clicks and wheezes nicely. There is a bundle of organ cloth in the workshop and maple wood for the winter task of motor rebuild.

Dave it is page 92/93 in the book.

Ross

Let’s go for this – whittle down the collection to 30 odd airframes – move it to Henlow then open a office style showroom in central london complete with a model of each aircraft type the RAF operated.

That will cover all the needs does it not?

No need to gain access to a london car park before it’s declared opening time because you think you need special dispensation from the rest of the public and only declare it at the moment you arrive.

The Henlow location and Central London model shop was the proposal in the 1960s and what you would have had today if the plan had not changed to Hendon (the proposed model collection was created and is in Stafford Store)

Would this format have provided what we all want/expect/need/wish in a national museum.

I for one take each collection I visit as a considered whole – grateful for the bits I find interesting and tollerant of the remainder.

Ross

Very strange looking GPR plot.

If it’s a vertical section the anomaly is down a capped shaft not a tunnel.

However it is presented (vertical section or horizontal slice) the surrounding ground is shown as completely uniform in structure with no natural inclusions of any type giving rise to reflections.

If it is GPR false colour plot then it’s been subject to very coarse after processing to filter out geo information.

These are more akin to GPR equipment displays

Vertical Section
http://www.ndt.net/article/wcndt00/papers/idn667/fig3.jpg

Looks more like a resistivity or magnetic plot to me.

Good primer info here
http://asstgroup.com/techniques.html

Ross

G-ACBH/G-ADFO

G-ACBH was Cat W in this fatal accident

http://www.rafaircraftaccidents.com/F1180/1940/March_1940/16_3_1940/01101821.JPG

http://www.rafaircraftaccidents.com/F1180/1940/March_1940/16_3_1940/01101822.JPG

F1180 Copyright RAF Museum

Spares recovered later and used with other parts to build composite G-ADFO

Ross

The early Coastal use with Anson was problematic as it did not have a setting for one of the effective a/s bombs of the time (250 or 500 lb – one size should be missing from the edge scale)

Without a setting these needed to be dropped by Mk.I eyeball and pre war they were not issued for practice so on commencement of hostilities so no crew had any practice in deployment.

This was the reason they were withdrawn quickly from Coastal operational aircraft.

Tests just after the end of the Great War showed that a bomb of greater than 300lb was needed to cause damage to U-Boats of the era.

Between the wars this lesson was ignored and the standard a/s bomb was set at 100lb. This was the size the crews practiced with.

On 5th Sept Anson crews in error carried out Blue on Blue attacks on HMS Spearfish and HMS Seahorse with the 100lb weapons with no damage inflicted, then on 3rd Dec HMS Snapper received a blue on blue attack with a direct hit from a 100lb bomb at the base of the conning tower which caused 4 lights to break only.

The lesson from the Great War needed to be re-learned and the switch was made to a higher weight bomb not covered by the standard settings.

Ross

Hi Alan,

F1180 has him listed as pilot on OADF Hudson.

Usually RAF Records did not post to OADU/OADF only attached so No.31 ANS would have been the last paper posting assigned by the Canadian PRC on his arrival.

Carter DFC and how it was Won lists the unit on DFC award as PRU St Eval.

He has a few mentions in Ocean Bridge by Christie but all relating to the final flight rather than saying if he was in Canada and volunteered to fly an aircraft back, had been brought over specifically by the return ferry service or had arrived by ship.

Ross

Most comes from the precis listed on the Form 1180 Accident Card.

The ‘board of enquiry’ is a corruption of the ‘Court of Inquiry’ which reported on Form 412.

The Form 1180 lists the file reference of this as 2582.

Personnel Registry File is listed as 686 and Form 1669 Casualty Card as 6547.

Ross