Found a pic of one of the other firewalls at Rothes, dated March 1984…
Comparing these firewalls to the very clear images found in the Haynes Lancaster Owners’ Workshop Manual, they are both from the Lancasters outboard engines. The inboards have a more rounded section…
Apologies if these photos (Nov 85) are well known, but I thought you might like to see XH558 undergoing preps for a respray at Kinloss…
before
and after….
I was at school in Kinloss and played in a number of Avro Lincolns that had returned from Malaysia. They were alongside the Findhorn road and totally accesable to us kids. This was prior to them being mothballed.This was in 1953.
I trawled through my photo collection, and perhaps found your Lincolns. This 1954 photo was taken from the ATC control tower, looking across the Findhorn road to Findhorn ‘Whitley’ Bay. Sorry for the quality, but the enlargement is probably just 1/30th of the whole image!
Starting from the left, there are two small aircraft (Hunters?) taking off over the bay, some parked/abandoned aircraft (more Lincolns?) beside the woods at Langcot House (Station Commander’s residence), and on the right at least nine Lincolns in a group…
Very, very sad – it’s been a huge part of my life for over 40 years. And as far as I can tell, there are no guarantees that the new MR4 won’t be cancelled (or Kinloss closed) in the next Defence Review, or by the new government.
XV238 at Lossiemouth during a Kinloss Bolthole…
Does anyone have any photos of the S****hawk, the Kinloss Nimrod which was resprayed the wrong colour due to a paint code mixup, and had to go around with a surreal chocolate brown scheme until her next major?
I agree it is lazy – those 1/8000 shutter speeds almost guarantee a sharp image of a flying aircraft, but where is the skill in that? Digital movie cameras also do some very strange and unrealistic things to moving props and rotors.
I can remember when 1/500 on an SLR was an absolute luxury!
But here’s a question for you – how did I manage to take this photo? Hint – there’s no fakery involved…
I remember reading about a crashed German aircraft at Rothes in an archived local newspaper. Looking at the dates again, though, it might not be the same aircraft. From a distant memory of the the newspaper story, the aircraft had spread itself widely over a field, killing the crew, and was then covered by snow, so that it was six months before anyone found it.
The Rothes Ju188F-1 280608 A6+HH crew (Fw F. Schanze, Oblt J. Winne and W. Sebisch) are buried in a cemetery at Lossiemouth, near the crew of an He 111 which crashed on the airfield in 1940, and a German Navy Seahawk pilot.
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