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June 23, 2018 at 9:29 pm in reply to: 29 OTU ORBs #778719

Alan Clark
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The description of photos etc describes the entire contents of the bound volume, multiple units often being in a single binding, 30 OTU which is in the same volume contains quite a bit of that, I don’t recall No.29 OTU taking up much of it when I copied a significant amount of the 30 OTU portion.

June 6, 2018 at 11:37 pm in reply to: How to find more about the aircraft my Great Grandad flew? #787284

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If you know the time period the Form 540 (Operations Record Book) from the National Archives will be of use, he should be listed in the Form 541 each time he was a part of an operational crew. Unfortunately when the NA had them digitised they split the files up into monthly blocks of the Form 540 and Form 541 so downloading them becomes expensive very quickly. If you live near to SW London then going along in person with a laptop or similar can be cheaper as you can download for free on site. When looking for people you want the Form 541 except for the month of posting in and out as they should be listed in the Form 540 as a personnel movement.

June 1, 2018 at 5:40 pm in reply to: RAF Squadron Records at the National Archive #790563

Alan Clark
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Take a laptop or tablet with you, you can download the pdfs of the ORBs month by month for free at Kew, you have to pay if not on their internet access. If there are photos etc in an ORB which you can view in the pdf but which have not been copied at particularly high quality you can fill out a request to view the file in paper form. I have had to do that once or twice with WO 208 escapee reports when they started digitising them but didn’t do every report from each file.

Station ORBs and misc units are in hard copy only.

May 12, 2018 at 4:43 pm in reply to: 43 Group RAF, civilian recovery crews and records. #801480

Alan Clark
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Never looked at the 43 Group records, it’s referred to often enough when aircraft were written off. I have looked at the 67 MU ORB in the past and it does contain the odd reference to recoveries but never much.

May 11, 2018 at 6:13 pm in reply to: Lanc over Derwent, any good spots to watch? #801998

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I’m thinking the summit of Win Hill between Hope & Bamford might not be a bad spot, it’s a steep climb up there from either Yorkshire Bridge or Hope station though. That way you’ll see the aircraft leaving the valley on their way south.

March 5, 2018 at 6:26 pm in reply to: The Hunt For The Missing Hercules 63-7789 #827422

Alan Clark
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Has anyone taken a look through the ORBs for the relevant Squadrons which were on QRA at the time, as well as station ORBs, to look for mention of aircraft being airborne? Similarly is there likely to be anything in archives in France, if as seems likely the aircraft was close to French airspace?

November 26, 2017 at 7:41 pm in reply to: Part ID #801882

Alan Clark
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EA 9 is Canberra, seems to be a B(I) Mk.8.

October 10, 2017 at 7:11 pm in reply to: Mystery Aircraft on show at 'Wings for Victory' display – Manchester, England, 1943 #823678

Alan Clark
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I agree, it is a Mustang Mk.I.

October 2, 2017 at 9:05 pm in reply to: 59 Sqn Blenheim Loss 10 July 1940 – A Bit Of A Mystery #827104

Alan Clark
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You might need to take a trip to Kew, or get someone who is going to have a look at AIR 81/1065

August 2, 2017 at 1:08 am in reply to: Mildenhall Line up 2000 #784215

Alan Clark
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That’ll have me going through my Mildenhall photos for that year, I know I have some photos of the B-52, B-2 & Swedish AF C-130 I have a feeling I may have missed the start of the display as I was on the train over from Manchester and even the first of the day didn’t get you there for the start.

July 16, 2017 at 4:21 pm in reply to: Lockheed Vega crash, Canada (Historic, not recent) #793903

Alan Clark
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Playing with the contrast on that registration I think it could be NX308H, which crashed at Vineland, Ontario 16th May 1931.

June 22, 2017 at 12:50 pm in reply to: British Registered Bell Hueys (205) #810690

Alan Clark
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G-UHGB was previously on the German registry, and it is a regular in the Peak District doing lifting work for the National Park.

May 10, 2017 at 2:31 pm in reply to: Passenger airliner tail stairs #829657

Alan Clark
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I remember, vaguely, entering & exiting a BA BAC 1-11 doing Manchester – Jersey in 1980somthing.

Within the last few years there was a jump from the tail stairs on a 727 shortly before said aircraft was flown into the Mexican desert as part of another grand experiment on why it’s not a good idea to be in a plane when it crashes.

January 23, 2017 at 7:06 pm in reply to: MEMORIAL TO CREW OF LANCASTER PB812 #812200

Alan Clark
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Reading the witness statement to me it reads like fire and smoke from engine exhausts with a lot of fuel being fed into the engines, confined to the centre portion of both port & starboard wings and only only being trailed to halfway between the wings and tailplanes. The AOC’s comment about the aircraft having possibly been inverted (or under negative g) and the effect on the fuel system are interesting, I know carburetor fed engines tended not to like being put into the wrong orientation.

January 12, 2017 at 5:46 pm in reply to: Vickers Wellesley incident #816821

Alan Clark
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See http://www.rafcommands.com/archive/03983.php

This gives K7732, No.148 Sqn, 29-9-1939, however the is no entry in Bomber Command Losses Vol.1 for this aircraft so I am wondering if the year is correct, I suspect it may be 1938.
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