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  • in reply to: Wellington serial question #820951
    Zidante
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    Thank you for pointing me towards the RAF Commands thread which hadn’t been flagged in the Google searches I had carried out at Kew with the other serials.

    Please understand that many of us that view and use the forum are infrequent viewers so 24 hours isn’t an unreasonable delay.

    in reply to: Wellington serial question #821413
    Zidante
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    Ahh perfect, thank you very much gentlemen.

    It was a loss from a Bullseye exercise from 26 OTU on 8th October 1942. The ORB records the serial as R1839. R1389 IS a Wellington IC, the movement card of which shows it attached to 16 OCU and its arrival on 19th September is noted in their ORB and also its loss on 8-9th October.

    I can only assume that either it was a borrowed aircraft for some reason (not too far from Wing to Upper Heyford after all) or it was transferred and not recorded as the 16 OTU ORB does make a point of their conversion to Mk IIIs at the time and their eagerness to dispose of their remaining Mk ICs.

    in reply to: Halifax Nav’s chair ? #768778
    Zidante
    Participant

    More like the radio operator’s chair. The navigator on the Halifax had a fold-down seat if I recall correctly.

    in reply to: Whole Month Missing From 1690 BDTF's ORB #777955
    Zidante
    Participant

    Assuming that this isn’t just a copying error and the pages are indeed missing from the paper copy then it’s likely they are gone.
    There are/were pages missing from the microfilm copies but in my experience these were usually present in the paper copy held downstairs.

    in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #785912
    Zidante
    Participant

    It ranks alongside the ‘restoration’ of the fresco of Christ in Zaragoza…
    On top of every other considerable and over-riding issue the paintwork isn’t worthy of an ill-informed child. That it was done by an institution selling itself as a museum in the 21st century just defies belief.

    in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #786366
    Zidante
    Participant

    If it is the same aeroplane then that is a historic artifact and poignant memorial permanently ruined and questions need to be answered.
    Somewhat ironic that the original pictures were dismissed as ‘a model’ when this seems to have now been painted to depict a particularly poor one too.

    in reply to: Derwent parts in Star Wars #795861
    Zidante
    Participant

    I firmly believe that if someone can find some interest in a subject then it has demonstrable value, no matter how bizarre, off beat or baffling I may find that interest.

    in reply to: Vertical rocket installation in a B-17 fortress 1943 #810454
    Zidante
    Participant

    The text says that it replaced the upper turret but surely that installation is in the radio room?
    (at least it appears to be with my eyesight and a mobile screen)

    in reply to: Michael Bentine #811957
    Zidante
    Participant

    It sounds perfectly plausible.
    There was also the Potty Time episode with The Red Baron.

    in reply to: History of a Lancaster Navigator help please #813728
    Zidante
    Participant

    There is a F/Sgt HWB Greetham 620817 commended for valuable service in the air 8th June 1944 in The London Gazette.
    Not unknown for given names to bear no relation to that which someone is known by, but probably the wrong man.

    in reply to: Please identify this plane #813736
    Zidante
    Participant

    Was it anyone on here that bought the picture last week?

    in reply to: The Most Dangerous Enemy #816503
    Zidante
    Participant

    I think it might be time to start being careful before overly extensive quoting breaches copyright.

    in reply to: Third Vickers Wellington survivor, will we ever see it? #821773
    Zidante
    Participant

    It would be nice to have a Wellington permanently on display, complete, north of Watford.

    in reply to: WWII. Price of Empire. #822462
    Zidante
    Participant

    There was another sequence of Hurricanes in flight which was clearly reversed.
    The footage was very ‘illustrative’ rather than specific and a lot used in that episode is the same as that in the identically titled episode of The World at War (albeit that there is a degree of inevitability in that).

    in reply to: Alloy Air Intake 98-53425 #827120
    Zidante
    Participant

    Lancaster experts feel free to correct me but it doesn’t look the right shape for a Lancaster which is less pointed at the tail and integral with a bigger baseplate.

    The ‘diced pigeon strainer’ should have mounting points inside the vertical face (I think) if it is Lancaster.

    Must be Spitfire then…….

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