Well, you learn something new every day! I’d never heard of the triple tail Dumod Liner. The single tail Beech conversion looks quite sleek.

As a project to while away the hours of lockdown I started scanning old family photos for distributing to the rest of the family. Just today I came across this photo again. Considering the memories it brings back of many happy times spent at Strathallan airfield I think it’s definitely worth a mention here. 

My dad, with whom I frequented the airfield, had taken ill and the guys at Strathallan kindly signed this photo as a memento for him. 

Signed by Dick Richardson; Duncan Simpson; Capt P.A. MacKenzie DSO DFC; Stan Banfield and David Kemp (both also in the crew of Lancaster KB976 when she crossed the Atlantic to Strathallan); Bernie Sedgwick also ex-BCal and the Collection’s engineers – Jim Hutchinson, D. Davidson, David Lawson, Dugald McKillop and D. Barnes.

Hi boguing

Just to say that your photo isn’t showing at all. Tried on laptop and pc.

Beautiful photos. Thanks for posting them 🙂

It definitely will be a sad day if our worst fears are confirmed and the archive is gone for good. I feel we are seeing the best days of the internet slowly disappearing. By best, of course, I mean the days when things were free to use, easy to use and useful for serious research. I guess we can hope that archive.org may host further issues of Flight as they come out of copyright (if that is the reason for them only being up to 1935 at present) but they’re not so easily searchable there.

Sorry, GYD. I haven’t found any more info other than what you already know.

I’ve looked hopefully through my books on the Scottish airfields which 141 were involved with  – only one photo there but it doesn’t actually show the squadron code so may be just a stock photo. However, “The Turret Fighters – Defiant and Roc” by Alec Brew (Crowood Aviation) features several from the personal collection of the squadron historian, Don Aris.