Gary, may I suggets asking on the Military board of PpRuNe?

They’ve had a recent discussion on the Chinooks lost in FI, so you may well find someone there to assist.

Andy

On the Air Cadet gliders has anyone got details of the relevant model companys that would cover the types mentioned previous. Special interest in this area due to being a “sprog” for eight years and did a stint at 643 VGS on Vigilants in 1993. Trained at ACCGS…..Happy Days!

I don’t know of any production model glider that would accurately depict earlier types. You might have to resort to scratch-building, if you’re up to it. There’s a thread over here full of pics of Barges and Cadets, to show you what we had to live with in the old days. 😀

How far back down the training route would you like to go? As an ex-Mil pilot (albeit Army rather RAF) the first aircraft I got any training on was a T-31.

Gallery range target stands, as Moggy C has identified. Bit of a sorry state.

Active on Pprune, despite (or perhaps because of) one really irritating knowitall who carries a considerable chip on his shoulder over the loss to the Army of some of his beloved airfields. Airfields which would otherwise have become trading- or housing estates.

Also active on Arrse, where there are a few good aviation-related threads.

Len Deighton’s ‘Bomber’. Found it as a soft-back in our school library – clearly the librarian wasn’t a fluffy revisionist back in 1976 – and subsequently found a first edition in a second-hand bookshop in York, which is taken from my bookshelf and re-read every couple of years.

Norton Disney was a Forward Filling Depot for mustard gas bombs. Despite having been cleared of ordnance on closure after WW2, there have been reports of items being discovered during subsequent clearance operations.

This phenomenon isn’t limited to ND, however.

I’ll have to check with a family member, but I believe it was used for emplaning/deplaning drills by 1 Sqn RAF Regiment until their departure from St Mawgan.