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January 13, 2006 at 9:25 pm in reply to: disgraced squadrons? #1339477

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That was the implication!

January 13, 2006 at 9:09 pm in reply to: disgraced squadrons? #1339493

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Sorry, what I should have said is in that this so-called “disgraced squadron” (my informant used this phrase) the officers, ground and air, abandoned the other ranks.

January 13, 2006 at 8:18 pm in reply to: disgraced squadrons? #1339570

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I have heard a version of this too but I always thought it was a little sensitive to raise in public. But now that someone else has started the thread …!

Anyway, it is said that a certain squadron which allegedly abandoned its groundcrew in Java has never been allowed to serve in the UK ever since. A check with the records indicates that it has indeed always served overseas. Maybe myth, maybe not, but hardly conducive to esprit de corps in those who came much later!

January 12, 2006 at 1:47 pm in reply to: Blackpool Vulcan (Zombie) #1341274

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Just seen her on the local news being chopped up by a JCB. Sad.

January 10, 2006 at 11:25 pm in reply to: ww2 USAAF Base Units #1342805

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USAAF Base Units should not be confused with Base Air Depots. Check the USAAF Forum for further info. Sorry, haven’t got time for more comments right now!

January 8, 2006 at 5:22 pm in reply to: Polebrook B17s #1345587

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According to The Army Air Forces in WW II Combat Chronology, the 8th dispatched a record no of bombers that day for Operation Starkey (“a rehearsal for the invasion of France”). They attacked airfields in northern France and a Paris industrial area. Roger Freeman’s Mighty Eighth War Diary may have a bit more detail but I don’t own a copy.

January 8, 2006 at 5:12 pm in reply to: Whitley back from extinction? #1345702

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Exactly, why bury it? The local group don’t seem to want to know …

January 7, 2006 at 4:03 pm in reply to: Yeager in Europe in the 50's..? #1346831

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Apologies for being off topic, but when Ryanair started flying Liverpool to Torp for Oslo, an easyJet pilot piped up when he heard me pasing the route clearance “Where’s Torp?!” Knowing Norway’s topography,I answered “About 40 miles from Oslo, assuming there IS a road!”

January 7, 2006 at 3:58 pm in reply to: Whitley back from extinction? #1346835

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Are we talking about the alleged buried Halifax at the former RAF Hooton Park, Wirral? There are several independent eyewitness reports of this one being buried and I know the spot where it is supposed to be. The aircraft details are known, too. The site is neither marsh nor flood-prone but it is quite close to the Manchester Ship Canal. I consider it very unlikely that it was buried, despite these reports to the contrary. But …..!

December 31, 2005 at 7:05 pm in reply to: Whitley back from extinction? #1355218

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Yes, there was another Whitley in the Dee off Point of Ayre but this was salvaged eventually.

December 31, 2005 at 10:04 am in reply to: Whitley back from extinction? #1355705

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A Whitley crew returning to Yorkshire from a raid on Turin got totally lost and made a successful ditching at the mouth of the Mersey. Full details known but I don’t have them to hand at the moment. One wonders what, if anything, is left. Apparently, as the dawn came up the crew in their dinghy spotted the Liver Buildings in the distance! In the same area, a Catalina sank after being towed too fast by a naval vessel. The Cat had cast its moorings in the Menai Strait overnight and drifted out into the Irish Sea. There is also a Henley in the estuary! How about multiple recoveries for City of Culture 2008?

Oh, and before anyone says it, the hubcaps will be missing …

November 28, 2005 at 4:21 pm in reply to: Heads up – In Search Of Speed BBC2 Sunday #1395027

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I thought the best bit was the footage of the Ryan Fireball formation shutting down their prop engines and flying on the jets! Yes, what happened to Peter Twiss? I well remember his FD2 record when I was a young lad.

November 19, 2005 at 4:23 pm in reply to: Polish Aviation Museum – Cracow (Krakow) #1403632

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Great photos Michal! I visited this museum about three years ago and really enjoyed it. Krakow is a fascinating city also.

November 11, 2005 at 9:59 am in reply to: Flying Boat Mishap #1413347

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Have now managed to find the Coast Guard log entry for this incident:

24/2/33 Report by Supplementary Watchman Owen Williams from Look Out Hut that he had seen a signal of distress from two seaplanes anchored in Nefyn Bay (S1230 and S1235 from RAF Pembroke Dock). Porth Dinllaen lifeboat was called out. Also Life Saving Apparatus Company with lifebelts and lines. No S1230 grounded at 1015 at Ty Coch. The Company assisted two men from the seaplane. It was then reported that one airman was missing, but he was seen immediately afterwards drifting towards the shore. He was rescued by lefebelt and line. S1235 was trying to beach at the Bwlch, which she did so at 1105, the airmen wading ashore. No lives were lost. The LSA Company was dismissed at 1500.

They must have been from No 201 Sqn. Southampton Mk II.

November 6, 2005 at 5:17 pm in reply to: Raf Binbrook Airfield And Control Tower #1420472

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Suggest you try the Military or ATC sections of PPRUNE as well.
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