The Times Digital Archive is accessable on the web via SOME Public Libaries and also via thwe web via your libary card it is holds digitzed content from 1785 to 1985

This is supplied by Thomson Gale, who also have recent newspaper archives for all the broadsheets from about 1986 on line as well – Well the times since 1986 as anyway.. and the others latter

Prehaps someone will do a Track the Container in real time website in FlightExplorer.com like they do on Operation Bolero II.

1) Driver, stops for a slash here.
2) Buys Yorkie here
3) etc..

An update..

“I have checked with Bodo, they now say that Skua L2991 was the one that crashed at Ålesund April 26th. (Filmer/Baldwin) I guess that we have to wait until we have raised the wreckage in order to find the correct serial.

Sorry for giving you the wrong information.”

“56 Sqn “as was” and “as is,” depicted by the Bristol Bulldog (squadron equipment 1932-36) and English Electric Lightning (1961- ). The
Bulldog, recently restored, was flown by Bristol Aircraft chief test pilot Godfrey Auty; the Lightning by the commanding officer, Sqn Ldr J. R.
Rogers. 56 wear red-and-white checkerboard markings. K-2227 was featured in last week’s issue

The previous weeks issue referred to:

http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1961/1961%20-%201375.pdf

Looks like XM174/Y

Mark

Looks like your eysight is ok

http://www.aviation-picture-hangar.co.uk/xm174.html

http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=XM

XM174 Lightning F1A

f/f 15/11/1960, d/d 15/12/1960, w/o 29/11/1968

XM174 was involved in a collision with XM 179 (which was now coded Y) on 6th June 1963 – So the photo has to be after 15/12/1960 and before 06/06/1963

Is it something to do with a day of Infamy..

Infamy.. They all have it in for me…

*******The Met.Comm. Sqdn operated out of Hortholt (London) during WW11 carrying high ranking officers etc etc between stations.

Dustyone

Actually I think the Met.Comm. Sqdn was not at RAF Hortholt, rather it was RAF Nendon (RAF Hendon) during WW2, it went to Northolt afer Hendon was closed to flying units after WW2

P2537 was with 79 Sqn

Both Franks (FCL) and Cull (12 Days in May) have Appleton killed in this aircraft on 14th May 40.

Peter Cornwell (on TOCH) who did the Day by Day losses in both Battle of Britain Then and Now and also the follow up books on the Blitz has for a number of years been doing investigation and research on all Battle of France Losses (all nations) for a new book (which is planned to be published late 2007)

He says ” Cull & Franks would both have us believe this was P/O Appleton’s aircraft lost on May 14, 1940, but I doubt this even without the evidence of the photograph.

So he DOUBTED Appleton was on this aircraft P2537 even before the ‘evidence’ of the photograph. When his reseach is published it will probabbly reveal Appleton was on another aircraft

What has singulary been failed to notice by ANYONE is that BOTH the “recorded” history of P2537 and P2577 have involved total losses of the aircraft concerned (bailed out and killed) so how can the photograph be explained!

Paul