Translation

A friend who is Romanian with a Russian wife confirms it is neither language although his wife recognises it!Something like”Dear friend,writing to you …speaking…I am Happy!!

Bleriot

childhood memorabilia,could this be a Bleriot?

Beech 18

I was working in Jeddah in 1981 and the beach was mounted on a plinth outside the entrance to the old airport ,there were B-26 s sat at the far side of the airport ,photo somewhere!!I was taking photos when the police appeared so did not go back again!Lots of stuff in the scrapyard there ,to far away to be certain but certainly single engined types(maybe Mustangs?)

blades

I know what these are and where!!!

Bombing civilians

Dont forget the Biadecker raids. A firend(now dead)worked at Boulton & Paul in Wolverhampton,he volunteered to drive a truck with parts urgently needed in a factory in Coventry and arrived as the raid that flattened coventry started,what he remembered as he tried to get his truck to the delivery point was driving near a factory area and the street was flowing with what he thought was oil but was margarine and cooking fat and in it were bodies of people ,dogs etc ,he spent the night helping rescue trapped people . 1970 and he was still having nightmares about it.I make no comment on bombing cities and tit for tat may not be justified but in the case of Germany it was a whole nation against Europe and they got what they deserved.I was born in 1942 and too young to remember much except there were a lot of widows about including my mum and her sister.Nuff said.

Pundit

adendum to my previous post ,as I recall the pundit was powered by an engine driven generator .There was a cloud base searchlight that was also used to determine cloud base height!!If I remember correctly it was situated on the corner of the MT building.Perhaps its still there!

Fate off another Canberra?

While at St Athan in 1958 a Canberra was brought into the training hangar and was used mainly by the armourers.I think it was a B2 and had been used in the suez campaign.one feature was a large pale blue speedbird type logo on the fin.Anyone of you Canberra experts know which one this might have been?

Pundit beacon

RAF Oakington had a beacon that was a proper towable trailer (colour ,air force blue)it was situated in a field between the officers mess and the pig farm.When night flying started the duty electrician would have to walk out to it and switch in on,it would take several minutes to do this and then start transmitting the morse letters for the station.I did this many times,I think the name pundit came from the noise it made as each letter lit up!Again ,I do not know what happened to it,perhaps there should be a thread for ex RAF ground equipment ,there must be lots about!!!?