No, Gerry, sorry I wasn’t joking about it being taken from high ground! Never mind, it was an interesting exercise!

Dave S

Very plain fare, I should imagine! See here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Restaurant

A pretty good team effort to identify these places, I think. But Gerry should be suspended from the forum for misleading us that they were taken from aeroplanes. 😀 One from the tower and one from the high ground behind the coast here.

Presumably to keep an eye out for accidents on the aerodrome and call out the firemen? To this day, one of Air Traffic Control’s responsibilities is to provide an “alerting service”.

That must have been Prince Cantacuzene in his Jungmeister. The top scoring Romanian fighter pilot in WW2 amongst other achievements. He performed at quite a few British airshows in the 1950s. I saw him at Woodvale in 1957 and have never forgotten it! I was only a kid but it was obvious that here was a master aviator.

I’m surprised about the Stirling File going for £50 on eBay. There are a whole bunch on abebooks for £20-£30.

It sounds a great place! Reminds me of the Avion Club in Prague.

Milmeece, HMS Fledgling for groundcrew training, in Staffs is a possibility but I suspect it would have closed after the war. Stretton perhaps?

The cars are quite interesting too!