Very sad news indeed.

My favourite road name is at Dallachy –

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Beautiful photos, Jur! Thanks for posting 🙂

Taken in July 2015 and still looking in lovely condition then –

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Hello, Dave. Just finished listening to your programme. What a varied life and career Phillip Leech has had! The reason I listened to this episode was because of the “local” connection of Leuchars and Dallachy. However, I found Phillips entire story very interesting – how he was living a normal life, in a normal job then trying to study to become a doctor only for war to come along and put all his plans to one side for some years; how he came through the war years considering himself always very lucky; the winding down of his RAF career and ferrying the Sea Otter; how he picked up the threads of his pre-war life again and finally realised his wish to become a doctor in 1960! Meanwhile he obviously still enjoyed flying as a gliding instructor for many years.

Personally I think Mr Leech is quite generous when he says he doesn’t think of Coastal Command as a “forgotten” service. I think it is all too easy for the big battles and big personalities of the time to detract (or distract) from the other, what some may consider minor, actions which were going on involving less well-known names. Their stories deserve to be heard too. I think it is great that you are doing these interviews as time is slipping by and all too soon the wartime generation will disappear.

I liked your interview style too which I think kept the conversation flowing well.

Originally posted by pogno
Tom Campbell Black’s British Empire Air Display used Scion G-ADDT hired from Pobjoy Motors and wearing the colours of Gaumont British News, it crashed at Porthcawl 26/7/36 and they also had Avro 504N’s G-ACZC, G-AECR w/o 10/5/36, and another unknown.

According to the Scran website (http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-128-633-C&scache=5ih1puux07&searchdb=scran) G-ADDT had an interesting history –

The Short Scion II shown here was first registered on January 20th 1936 to Pobjoy Airmotors of Rochester and was flown by GE Gardiner from Croydon to India on 21 Jan 1936 returning on 13 March 1936 having flown 15,932 miles on the trip.
The aircraft then joined the H Campbell Black air display company where it visited pageants such as this one at Kirkcaldy in July 1936. The aircraft was written off in a crash at Porthcawl only a week later on 26th July 1936.

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