ResmorohRAFM Boss
Visit every museum in London. See how they do what they do – not why they do it. Do an Archaeology degree course – or, at least, sit in on the bits appertaining to the presentations and care of artefacts. If you want to educate – which is why museums get money – then you need to know who you are educating, and why. Have a private dinner at Hendon and invite all the top museum directors. Get them to sing for their suppers by giving ideas, for it is clear that the displays at RAFM – as currently organised – do, from various comments, please none of the people none of the time! The jewel(s) in the crown at RAFM are DORIS and the other back-room staff – do not let this be reduced.
Do all this before you start listening to the aviation enthusiasts. Their requirements are different from the normal museum visitor and should come second to producing a world class visual experience that will bring the Great Unwashed in by the coachloads. If you can enthuse just one, or more, 10-yr old boy(s)/girl(s) to go on and study aviation engineering, etc, etc, then you will have served your purpose.
The enthusiasts can wallow in their own nostalgia (real, or imagined), but it is the next generation that should be the target of your efforts – and your staff.
It’s not the first time I’ve advised an AVM on his career path. The earlier one near gave me knee in the groin for my troubles!!
HTH
Resmoroh
ResmorohI suspect that the attitude of egress of any bombs from the bomb-bay would have little effect on the arming procedures? Wires were attached to the a/c and when the bomb left the bomb-bay they were pulled out and started the arming cycle? Was there not a small propellor on the nose of some bombs that completed the arming procedure as soon as air started to flow past the bomb on its way down?
Presumably, though, that attitude of the bomb as it left the a/c would have a significant difference to the “Forward Throw” bit of the trajectory? But, presumably, this would have been taken care of at the testing stage? (Same like German paratroops opted for the ‘head-first’ dive out of the JU-52, whereas our guys opted for the ‘feet-first’ exit!)
HTH
Resmoroh
ResmorohNow some expert will be able to tell us when the bog-standard RAF(?) 24-hr Ration Pack (of whatever delicacies!) first included the tiny (but very efficient) can-opener? (I had one on my key-ring, and another on my dog-tags – they came with a hole in the ‘handle’ for that very purpose!). Then the RAF issue knife would not have been needed as a can-opener?
I may, however, be like a voice crying in the wilderness – aircrew wouldn’t know about 24-hr Ration Packs!!! Nor would they be aware of the Exchange Rate – “I’ll swap you 2 ‘D’s’ for a ‘C’ – or whatever was the going rate at the time. Argy Officer’s Rat Packs were much sought after (they contained a whiskey miniature and 20 fags!!).
My Boss (who was OC MMU) was, years later, interviewing a prospective Scientific Assistant for a job in the civvy Met Office at RAF Brize Norton. This lad asked (quite brightly) “What do the letters OC MMU mean on your door?”. OC MMU explained and said “the MMU was in the Falklands War. You remember the Falklands War?” The lad said “I’m sorry, Sir, I don’t – I was only 7 at the time.” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Time catches up with you/us!!
Resmoroh
ResmorohPeter,
Was not the aircrew ‘knife’ a device that had a bright pink handle, several holes down the blade, and was carried in some slot/holster that was worn on the leg (in the Green Growbag) by immediatley post-WW2 aircrew? It could only be used for deflating dinghies, or cutting para shroud lines. It would have been of little use to those of us who had “accidentally” volunteered (as a civvy Met Man!) to do a V-Bomber E&E exercise on the N Yorks Moors in December!!
Aircrew had it easy – provided they remained in the air! Different kettle of fish when they joined the “Penguin Airforce” – i.e. all flap and no fly!
Do you ever go to Newmarket? (LOL, LOL)
Respects
Resmoroh
ResmorohNever ever needed an “Emergency Bottle Opener”. There’s a knack to opening ’em on any hard, sharp-edged, surface.
Knife (like that in Post #4) always handy. Sharpens pencils, can gut rabbits, also useful for cutting your way out of a tent fire (some pillock always knocks the paraffin stove over in the middle of a night-shift!!)
HTH
Resmoroh
ResmorohMoggy, Hi,
OK!, you reckon it wasn’t great. You’re probably right. But there is a plus side. At least somebody took the trouble to research the problem, and to write the play. Not everything has to be on TV, Film, or DVD. Many years ago a small girl was being interviewed on BBC and was asked why she liked reading rather than watching TV. Her reply was “The pictures are better”!! If you can get properly accurate ‘pictures in the mind’ either in print or, as in the case of a radio play, the spoken word then I reckon you’ve cracked it!!
Get writing, Moggy!
HTH
Resmoroh
ResmorohTry Guy Murchie’s “Song Of The Sky”. Or, if you metal bashers want to understand the psychological reasons why you do what you do, then read Neville Shute’s “Round The Bend”. This will give you an alternative view on a number of problems!
HTH
Resmoroh
ResmorohIcare9, Hi,
A Roy N Searle’s birth was Registered in Wandsworth, London, in Q1 1922 (Vol 1d Page 1218) – Mother’s Maiden Surname was Ireland. A Roy Norman Searle Enlists (RAFVR, 1393826) at Euston, London, in Aug 1940. This same Roy Norman Searle is Commissioned (RAFVR 132621) from LAC on 9 Oct 42 – presumably having just got his ‘Wings’? He’s Promoted Flt Lt on 9 Oct 44 (fits with his Commissioning date). There are only(!!!) 23 Searle’s in the Wandsworth BT Directory – should narrow your search slightly (LOL). The Death of a Roy Norman Searle is Registered in Bournemouth in Nov 2002 (Reg Dist 4271B, B30D, Entry No 053) – the DoB fits with Q1 1922 (above).
Over to you!
HTH
Resmoroh
ResmorohI don’t care what they do to the buildings (although many correspondents seem to indicate that the RAFM should “turn the wick up” a bit in some of the halls). Some of us are getting a bit long in the tooth to go gallivanting about to airshows/museums. Just don’t muck about with DORIS. 3 (or 4?) days ago I put an email request into DORIS. I noted the “20 day” reply proviso. When I fired up my “Idiot’s Lantern” this morning, Lo, and Behold, there was a reply!! Not an answer – but reasons why DORIS couldn’t answer, and pointers in the directions of those who might be able to.
Y’can’t get better than that.
HTH
Resmoroh
ResmorohTim,
I applaud your approach and efforts but I am afraid you are banging your head against a brick wall.
Maths, Physics, Engineering, and Chemistry, require some detailed knowledge to produce the right answer(s). This, in turn, requires attention to detail, some hard work, and an attention span that is becoming increasingly more difficult for many of the youngsters of today.
Similarly, to learn foreign languages requires a knowledge of the words, grammar, and syntax, used in that language. Some considerable work is required to achieve this.
It is much easier to be able to write (using text-speak, of course!) – for example – in a Media Studies examination that “Angie didn’t fancy Fred ‘cos he wasn’t cool” and thus get a First Class Degree than it is to present a clearly laid out, and well written, essay on – say – the politics, economics, etc, that have landed us where we currently are.
It has to be easy. If it is not then the young of today (with a very few minority exceptions) cannot be bothered to make the effort. If they don’t; “The State Will Provide”. Nice theory but increasingly difficult to finance nationally.
I wish you luck in this endeavour. I think you will find that those with a “work ethic” to study and achieve are in a minority – especially in the basic, original, sections of the UK population.
HTH
Resmoroh
ResmorohCorrection.
Correction to my earlier the drift ‘under the canopy’ would have been N to S. (I can’t tell my cyclones from my anticyclones – tsk, tsk!)
Resmoroh
ResmorohDave,
Marshfields is about 2 miles WNW of Colerne Airfield. There are trees in the northwest of the (now) Barracks. The met chart for the day shows a very slack wind gradient over S England. If yr man jumped out at c.12000 ft then he probably wouldn’t have drifted that far on the way down. What drift there was would probably have been from S to N. Can’t remember what the descent rate for WW2 aircrew parachutes was – but assume 28 feet per second. But he was probably ‘under the canopy’ for about 7 minutes before becoming “treed”.
The a/c though would have continued on its descent until impacting the ground somewhere near Marshfields? Fairly rapid rate of descent?
HTH
Resmoroh
ResmorohSuper Sioux, Hi,
Many tks for yr reply. It’s beginning put some pieces of the jig-saw in the right places. It’s the airstrip (and navaids) precise location(s) that I’m after! The strip – as located on the FSX facsimile of the area fits with a possible strip shown on the very poor satpix image. If that is, indeed, where it is then corrections may have to be made to a number of other international databases. But before I dare poke a sharp stick into their cages I need to be absolutley sure of my facts!!
Rgds
Resmoroh
ResmorohSeems ‘kosher’ to me. Run 152553 through the LG?
Resmoroh
ResmorohRod,
I think you are right. But my ancient, failing, memory will not recall!
I was in 38 Grp at the time. Every so often we used to get “The Warsaw Pact Circus” visiting most of the 38 Grp Stations. This had a wide variety of surface/surface, surface/air, weapons (including various SAMs) that we might be likely to encounter! I think it was when displaying the bog-standard Kalashnikov that this Rockape Flt Sgt indicated that the Iraelis had their own version! Too long ago!!
Resmoroh
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