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  • March 17, 2010 at 12:44 am in reply to: C-47 Dakota crash on Sidlaws #1146530
    Alan Clark
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    I doubt there will be anything in the papers, most wartime crashes went unreported due to censorship, it was only crashes in built up areas that were reported. That said there are odd exceptions.

    March 15, 2010 at 9:07 pm in reply to: C-47 Dakota crash on Sidlaws #1148193
    Alan Clark
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    I’ve been given details of the Dakota, here is what I have been given:

    “Dakota Mk.III FZ610 of 512Sqn on 27th July 1944. It flew into rising ground at 700′ while in cloud. The two pilots survived, but the Nav (F/L W.J. Mattocks) and W/Op (W/O J.R. West) were killed. The location of the accident is reported as Tealing.”

    March 12, 2010 at 7:34 pm in reply to: C-47 Dakota crash on Sidlaws #1150850
    Alan Clark
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    The aircraft was Avro Anson Mk.I N5064, http://www.aircrashsites-scotland.co.uk/anson_n5064_gallow_hill.htm

    March 11, 2010 at 1:25 am in reply to: Hendon archives access experience? #1152876
    Alan Clark
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    I’ve been to the archives at Hendon a couple of time and about a week before I phone them and book a day and tell them what I am after, the staff on all occasions have been helpful.

    I have only used the microfilmed reocrds and have been allowed to use a digital camera to copy off the screen, and another person in last time I was there was copying paper records with his camera.

    I didn’t see a camera stand in October but it doesn’t mean they haven’t got one.

    December 31, 2009 at 9:31 pm in reply to: Help needed for identification #1095099
    Alan Clark
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    The oleo in the first post is from an Oxford, it took a while but I found a photo of one in similar condition on Caw Fell at the crash site of AT486.

    December 31, 2009 at 12:24 am in reply to: Question regarding copyright on old photos. #1096122
    Alan Clark
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    The best description I have seen of UK copyright is on the National Archives website as a pdf, though they themselves charge a royalties fee if you use a Crown Image that came from their collection. Though that is another matter.

    I took me a while to re-find the URL, it is http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/legal/pdf/copyright_full.pdf

    December 26, 2009 at 3:45 pm in reply to: Interesting find at RAF St Eval #1100096
    Alan Clark
    Participant

    His service number is in a block of personnel taken in at Padgate from March to October 1950. The abbreviation NSA appears along side which I take to be National Service Airmen.

    December 20, 2009 at 4:46 pm in reply to: Decca Navigation Fit, Which Aircraft? #1104100
    Alan Clark
    Participant

    Civi Dakotas, I know for certain that G-AMVC was fitted with it when it crashed in Cumbria. Though it wasn’t being used by the crew on that flight.

    December 3, 2009 at 5:08 pm in reply to: Rumour Of A Couple Of Whirlwinds… #1120399
    Alan Clark
    Participant

    Both are buried at Exeter Higher Cemetery, graves ZK 80 & 81.

    F/Lt Wynford O.L. Smith and P/O Donald M. Vine.

    November 29, 2009 at 6:12 pm in reply to: Help with research at Kew #1125277
    Alan Clark
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    You could contact Bruce Dennis over on RAF Commands or through his website http://www.filephotoservice.co.uk.

    November 27, 2009 at 4:02 pm in reply to: Southend 1944 Liberator Crash #1126958
    Alan Clark
    Participant

    The information is off Craig Fuller’s index of USAAF accident reports.

    http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbaloc.asp?Loc=southend&Submit8=Go

    November 27, 2009 at 12:54 am in reply to: Southend 1944 Liberator Crash #1127368
    Alan Clark
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    There was a Category 5 write off as a result of a landing accident at Southend.

    A-20G 41-3380, 670th BS / 416th BG, 16th October 1944. The pilot is recorded as Chester R. Jackson.

    I’ve not found a P-38 but I did find a couple of P-51s and P-47s that were involved in accidents, but I only searched for Southend.

    November 13, 2009 at 2:59 pm in reply to: .303" cartridges from ex 3 Group airfield #1140631
    Alan Clark
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    Sounds like you’ve found your self a crash site, but on an airfield you have no hope of working out which a/c it is.

    November 7, 2009 at 9:50 pm in reply to: AAIB Report. Stockport 1967 #1145625
    Alan Clark
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    The Day The Sky Fell Down, ISBN 0953450309. Not entirely easy to get hold of now, though I still see it on sale from time to time locally.

    November 7, 2009 at 8:48 pm in reply to: AAIB Report. Stockport 1967 #1145641
    Alan Clark
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    You will find the reports at the National Archives, quite a few file references were used to cover the whole reporting / inquiry,

    AVIA 101/518 to AVIA 101/541
    DR 11/46 to DR 11/48
    DR 11/215 to DR 11/242
    and BT 248/422

    Most as ‘attached documents’ with relatively few being the actual reports.

    I should add that there is a lot of repatition between the AVIA 101 and DR 11 files, copies from the AIB and CAA have both found their way to Kew.

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