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  • in reply to: Unknown airfields #1262031
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    I don’t think the Cessna 336/337 was around at that time! Must be a Vamp then.

    in reply to: Unknown airfields #1262406
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    Second one is definitely Portreath. At first sight, I thought the other might be Peplow or Seighford but on checking doesn’t seem to be either. The main runway looks too long for Condover and there are too many buildings. The aircraft looks like a C337.

    in reply to: Film "The Hunters" #1263524
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    Salter’s novel Cassada is well worth reading too.

    in reply to: UK Control Towers – Health Check #1282468
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    High Ercall tower’s long gone, I’m afraid. It was on the east side of the field (the opposite of the MU site which is still quite intact.) There were lots of buildings and hangars on the tower side but only traces of roads remain today.

    in reply to: UK Control Towers – Health Check #1295053
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    Proplover – Tatenhill’s wartime tower was demolished quite a while ago. A photo appears in Action Stations 3.

    in reply to: UK Control Towers – Health Check #1296188
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    Acaster Malbis tower was intact 18 months ago. Showed signs of having been converted for domestic use but later abandoned.

    in reply to: Ouchhh Antonov power Vs Casa-Bucker #1297994
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    And TWICE a Piper Colt was overturned by the draught from a Britannia on Liverpool’s apron in the 1960s!(Not the same aircraft 😉 )

    in reply to: UK Control Towers – Health Check #1299009
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    Have never seen anything at Beaumaris which resembles a tower or watch office.

    in reply to: What was the first Spitfire to crash in Scotland. #1302799
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    What about all the casualties from Montrose, Ayr, Turnberry etc in WW1?

    in reply to: legends 2007 – first particpants #1303129
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    It seems to be more than rumour about Glacier Girl. She is supposed to be routeing via Stornoway. Appropriate, as some of the first P-38s landed here in 1942.

    in reply to: Phoenix Cork #1304337
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    I saw these around 1960. The story was that they were moored there in WW2as an obstruction to enemy seaplane landings. (!)

    in reply to: P-47 Thunderbolt Crash – Leicestershire, U.K. #1316162
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    Lt Abel was badly injured in a P-38 landing accident at Atcham and died a few days later.

    in reply to: The Luftwaffe and Merseyside #1249721
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    I think the Z battery was post- 1942. Will PM when I can find my notes.

    in reply to: The Luftwaffe and Merseyside #1250372
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    I came rather late to this thread so can’t add much! Has got to be the Bromborough Ju 88, although it was Spits rather than Hurris which shot it down. There was a Z Battery (unguided rockets) in Wallasey near the river bank. Not sure if it ever saw action. There may have been others on Merseyside.

    At a recent very low tide, I could see no evidence of the Bagillt He 111. The river has changed its configuration over the years and that marshland is probably now under water most, if not all, of the time. A neighbour who fishes in the Dee tells me that he hasn’t seen the wreck for many years and believes that it is now buried in the mud. Would-be investigators beware! The Dee tidal speeds are lethal, much faster than you can run. And you can’t run in that clinging mud.It is difficult enough walking in it!

    in reply to: P-47 Thunderbolt Crash – Leicestershire, U.K. #1257339
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    I spoke to Roy Bonser last night, author of Aviation in Leics and Rutland and an old friend of mine. He can’t remember his source for the info but certainly didn’t make it up! The Bird’s Eye book (which I have) got its info from ARP reports and similar records so the crash list should be accurate as regards dates, if not aircraft types.

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