Some of this does not hang easily together.
Let’s examine this logically.
Stavanger – Shetland 228 nm (where the Shetland Bus was already operating nearly more regularly than the #7 bus at the bottom of your road!).
Stavanger – Wick 260 nm (bit longer, but of the same order?).
Stavanger – Inverness (and I presume we mean RAF Dalcross?) 320 nm (much greater distance!)
Now if the “Spooks” had wanted to see/hear/brief/debrief this “Noggie Copper” then they must have had a reason for him being taken to Inverness? What was it?
Shetland would have been a much better bet. Shorter distance. If the weather had turned foul the Shetland Bus could be used for the return journey. There were Norwegian CC crews already operating from Shetland so the appearance of a Norwegian-speaking person in Shetland would not arouse any surprise in the ‘locals’, and thus retained the security.
I take DaveF68’s post at its face value. But to fly an He115 to Inverness would risk a lot problems with un-briefed fighter pilots (or a lot of local AA!). Much easier/safer to Shetland. However, I will be more than interested in the outcome of this thread. Know what it’s all about!
Resmoroh

Anyone for a Gin & To North (Ish) Card?
Resmoroh

At a first ‘shufti’.
Looking at the crop/soil marks I can see some evidence of Palaeo river channels. There’s a Bronze Age barrow at TF295923. Some of the straight-line soil-marks might, possibly, be either Roman drainage channels – or even salt-pans. The village of Withcall goes back to (at least) the middle 1500s.
Your best bet may be to contact the Lincs Co Council Archaeology lot at Tel: 01522 782070, Fax: 01522 554829, Email: [email]Dev_PlanningEnquiries@lincolnshire.gov.uk[/email]. If they don’t know, they will know who does!
HTH
Resmoroh

Further to my last.
When we got near to St M in this LWB LR + Tlr my Nav (who had been there as a Forecaster during the Second Great Unpleasantness) said “I know a short cut”. Should have known better, but he was my Boss! We ended up in a Council Estate which he swore had not been there when he was last in them parts! Trying to do a 180 with a LWB LR + Tlr up a cul de sac in a Council Estate is not, I must admit, one of my better skills! We had, eventually, to unhook the Tlr to complete the manoevre. Bet not many of you have been jeered at by the local urchinry for being seen to be a total driving/nav pillock!!
Resmoroh

Abso-bl**dy-lutely right!
Resmoroh

Just for a moment, Ian, when I read your thread header I thought you might have been talking about REAL V-beam aerials! You know, a real, tactical, steerable, HF aerial. Hundreds of feet of R4 copper aerial wire all strung from the top of a tactical, air-transportable, 80 foot mast! And the Grainger log-periodic ditto. On one Det it had taken us 2 days (at Stornoway in the winter!) to get this beast up. We finally got in comm with some Fishead boat in the Caribbean with a howling gale blowing and horizontal rain. Suddenly, there was a loud bang and everything went dark and quiet. Investigation showed that one of the local sheep (soaking wet) had decided to ‘scratch an itch’ on the bottom of a live aerial leg. Bang! Dead mutton (still steaming!). Even knocked the Meadows genny off-line!
That, Ian, Old Friend, is a real V-beam aerial. Not your Toytown stuff!
HTH
Resmoroh

Richard,
In my day the Person Responsible would now be in the Cells in the Station Guardroom. Summaries of Evidence would be taken leading to a Court Martial. If the individual could prove that (s)he had not, ever, been given Formal Orders to check intakes for dessicant bags then his/her Supervisor should also be in the Cells. If that Supervisor could, similarly, be called to account – and plead ignorance, then the Wg Co Eng and/or Staish would, very probably, find themselves posted very rapidly to somewhere very uncomfortable/nasty for a very long time.
Organisational failure? Pity, it WAS a good aircraft!
HTH
Resmoroh

If the Mods have got their heads screwed on the right way they will stop any further comment on this until there is a responsible comment issued from a competent authority.
Resmoroh