Bomber Command Losses Vol.2 1941, Pg.67:
“21 Sqn, Blenheim IV V6034 YH-D Op: Anti-shipping
F/S E A R Leavers DFM +
Sgt I Overhue DFM, RNZAF +
Sgt J W H Phelps +
T/o 1319 Watton. Crashed into the sea off the Frisian Islands after colliding with the mast of the ship being attacked. Thus died a crew that had gained a reputation for showing outstanding courage in low level attacks on enemy shiping. F/S Leavers iis buried in Baflo (Den Andel) Protestant Cemetery, Holland; his observer has no known grave, while Sgt Phelps rests in Sage War Cemetery, Oldenburg.“

Someone’s flying a UH-1 (D-H variant) around Derbyshire, nice to see it over Glossop, just too far away to see any markings.

According to an early edition of Aviation Archaeologist (from about 1975) the engine which was with the Strathallen collection was recovered from the Moray Firth by the Aberdeen British Sub Aqua Club and was attributed to He111 3774.

As well as the already mentioned seaplanes used for ASR, were any KM E-Boats used in ASR roles, they would seem an obvious choice given their speed and range, if only as an addition to their primary task.

Bob

The organisation of pre OTU training was spread right across the British Isles, the primary Scottish based units concerned with the training of navigators and bomb aimers (previously Observers) were:
No.1 AOS / (O)AFU – Wigtown
No.4 AOS / (O)AFU – West Freugh
No.10 B&GS / AOS / (O)AFU – Dumfries
There were also some early war units else where, No.1 AONS at Prestwick is an example, they were mostly run by civilian contractors but using RAF aircraft. Airwork were a major player in this and operated a number of schools at the outbreak of war.

Air Gunnery training was under taken by various units such as No.2 AGS at Dalcross and No.3 AGS at Castle Kennedy.

Also some under training wireless operators and air gunners were taken onto strength at other units to complete their training. For instance there are examples of WO/AGs u/t at Dumfries even though No.10 (O)AFU was a Navigation/Bombing school.

There were not many multi-engine units training pilots in Scotland, a couple of Flying Training Schools (later (P)AFUs) used airfields on the Moray coast.

They only Bomber Command OTUs in Scotland were No.19 & No.20 at Kinloss and Lossiemouth respectively.

I guess in theory it might have been possible to go from one end of the training syllabus to the other entirely at Scottish units but it might have been difficult. I can certainly think of more units with Fighter and Coastal Command ties than I can Bomber Command.

https://archive.org/details/nlsairforcelists

Squadron Leader Edward Bagley Gale, RCAF, buried at Brookwood Military Cemetery, 61 E 8. I’ve not seen any reference to a more recent recovery attempt at the site. It is certainly possible the heavy bits will have gone in a long way.

It may well have an impact into next week, even though the building was (really is) disused. I had been planning the trip for Tuesday so it’s possibly saved me getting up at 05:45 to get there from ~180 miles away.

It looks like a Mk.6 seat, there isn’t much to go on in those photos but the arrangement of the rivets around the lower firing handle are the same as the photos of a Mk.6 on MB’s website. MB don’t record Hawker Hunters as one of the applications for the Mk.6, more likely to be a Buccaneer if it is from a UK aircraft.