Crete

I was there a couple of years ago and hired a car for a day trip up into the mountains, right above the main cruise port.
Some pics for you of a rather sad ex museum which was not open, but seems to have some wartime vehicles parked up. Poss. German (not my bag)
Have a good treasure hunt.

In my post WW11 experience the G45 gun cameras were extensively used for an exercise called “cine”. This involved dummy attacks on a fellow squadron member, a pair of aircraft taking turns at being fighter and target.

The resultant film was then “assessed” to determine if the pilots could shoot. When we had the Mossie with the fixed ring sight that meant labouriously clicking the film through the projector frame by frame. The point of aim, deflection allowed and range had to be assessed (guessed) and pilots critised on the results.

The cameras used 16 mm film running at half cinema speed. The best pieces I ever saw was when we did some affiliation with a warship. To see that ship jump in length each frame as the range closed was very entertaining. This was from a Meteor at fairly high speed, great fun. Wish I had been able to keep some of it.

These two fell into my hands recently…..wonder if the cassette is ‘live’ ?

To clarify, I researched this incident in great detail some twenty five years ago and have eye witness accounts, correspondence from two of the crew, intelligence diaries and the like as well as several photos.

The Daily Mail article was based upon my article in “Blitz Then & Now-Vol 2” and my more recent contributions to “Britain at War” magazine. I supplied some of the material to Bournemouth News Services who sold the story to the Daily Mail. The embelishments to the story are the journalist’s…not mine.

A…..and when Andy researches something to this depth, he don’t get much wrong…………believe me.

Thanks for posting those xtangomike. That excavation took balls! I’d love to know how it was sold to the landowner…. 😀

I think it was Sandown local council.
It was in the early days and they had no idea (niether did we) exactly how large the operation was going to be.
Steve Vizard did all the PR, and there was certainly some rumbling in the jungle when the enormity of the exercise was fully known.
Like all good diggers, we had mostly fled the scene when the s..t hit the fan, and I think there were some latter payments made to offset the ‘clear up’.
Never in the ………..of digging has such a large hole been dug by so many loonies trying to find something that wasn’t there.

It is the Youngman Baynes High Lift, AA.

And it definitely is the D.H.93 Don.

xtangomike didn`t even change the filename from Wikipedia…:D

Al

Stupid boy I am…take 100 lines…..It took me years to lay this ghost to rest, but I was a schoolboy in Petersfield, and one of the aircraft that started my interest in the whole aircraft scene was an aeroplane parked in front of the school just after the WW11.
It was removed in the late 1940’s and I have struggled for years to find out what it was.
At an old boy’s reunion, I met an even older boy who remembered the identity of it and sent me the picture from Google….hence the forgotten title when I posted it.
It is an inconspicuous aeroplane, but it started me off in the aviation world….for better or worse.

Or this…….

Found a pair Andy…..any good…cheep..cheep..with a warranteeheheh

[quote=merlin70;1642853]That’s seems a very gung ho approach. There is nothing macho about being crushed in a collapsed excavation. Health and safety is about the application of safe practice. Whilst it can slow progress down and add to costs the precautions are there to avert a catastrophe.
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Gung ho!!! I think not…Rock climbing, bungy jumping, pot holing, Spanish bull fighting, digging holes in the ground ….all have a risk factor….some more than others.
On average nearly all aircraft digs are between 10 and 20ft…but occasionaly up to 40ft. No one dives down a deep hole without safety in mind, but if you waited for risk assessment and all the usual health and safety overkill, then nothing would happen and these aircraft recoveries would never take place purely on extra cost and time.

‘it is a shame that most if not all of the recorded crash sites have already been dug in the UK.’

Sorry about that, but they filled in the WW1 trenches before I could get there.

Health and safety and land owners would certainly prevent your audiences from getting anywhere near a dig hole. However quite a few recoveries are well documented on a fair number of TV presentations, and there are many artifacts well presented in museums dotted all over this country.
I went to one to see the ‘Mary Rose’, and did not find that either clinical or remote….I was just glad for the opportunity to see it for myself.