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  • October 30, 2008 at 9:53 pm in reply to: Harrier items…….. #1237523
    John Aeroclub
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    1918, April, RAF anniverary. Yes No 1 was formed as a Balloon Sqn in 1912 and 3 were the first with aeroplanes ( I think).

    John

    October 30, 2008 at 9:45 pm in reply to: Harrier items…….. #1237578
    John Aeroclub
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    I have the same patch which I took off my jacket when I handed it back to stores on de-mob. I left the Sqn the year before that photo (82). The winged badge was worn by ground crew on our overalls or green aircrew type jackets and had been in use on No.1 back into the dark ages (so I was told)

    John

    October 30, 2008 at 9:32 pm in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1237592
    John Aeroclub
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    Bingo… I hope. This is the same occasion at Waddington. Photo from Air Britain K Files.

    John

    October 30, 2008 at 8:59 pm in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1237597
    John Aeroclub
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    The Gauntlet I was with 19 Sqn (Duxford) and the Anson with 220 Sqn at Bircham Newton.

    John

    October 30, 2008 at 6:48 pm in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1237733
    John Aeroclub
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    Yes, Martlesham did occur to me ,but the dark upper panels on the hangar are the bogey, and I think it was a single bay shed.

    What few photos I can find of Martlesham show a single bay hangar with light panels. Again if you look at my pic of the Saro the hangars have light panels, (I have a few photos of Sealand which was the RAF’s main aircraft packing depot. The Furies also suggest to me an advanced flying training base. One that would fit nicely is Wittering as CFS were there and attracted all sorts of odd-balls, but I thought that the hangar the Luftwaffe modified was a single bay type, and it had dark panels. Am I wrong?

    John

    October 30, 2008 at 11:05 am in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1237969
    John Aeroclub
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    Easy one this. from my own files.

    John

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/Aeroclub/Copy2ofFile1288.jpg

    October 30, 2008 at 9:30 am in reply to: The "Wot Plane" Thread. (Game rules in Post #1) #1238036
    John Aeroclub
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    It’s South American and I’m thinking CAP 1 Planalto. c1948.

    John

    October 30, 2008 at 9:15 am in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1238046
    John Aeroclub
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    This is Shaibah, but taken from an 84 Sqn DH. 9 in 1923. Is it possible that the rough piece of ground, visible in my bottom right and to the extreme right of the cantonment in your photo are the same. The only grass at Shaibah would appear in the wet season. Is that the Tigris delta visible in the dim distance?

    John

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/Aeroclub/File1849.jpg

    October 29, 2008 at 9:13 pm in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1238274
    John Aeroclub
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    Thanks for looking. If you can get a hi-res scan it will help or get a glass on the original photo. Now this pic clouds things a little because it introduces two new types, a Swordfish and a Hart variant. It has slats and a tailwheel and long exhausts so I think it’s a Hind “T” or a late Audax. Wittering by the way didn’t have a double GS hangar but a single which the Luftwaffe took out. Again the hangar rules out Digby ….

    Do you have another view of this shot. K8430 was at Lee on Solent at this time.

    John

    Late edit, The machine to the right (and nose on) of the Hendon isn’t a Fury but the Hart variant (or another) behind in the Swordfish shot, so it looks like a Fairey “fly-in”, curiouser and curiouser.

    October 29, 2008 at 8:33 pm in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1238323
    John Aeroclub
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    Keith, can you read the serial of the Fury in the background, it could help?

    John

    October 29, 2008 at 6:44 pm in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1238433
    John Aeroclub
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    Wyton and Wittering both had GS hangars with dark panels and Wittering had Furies.

    John

    October 29, 2008 at 6:27 pm in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1238441
    John Aeroclub
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    Aerodrome identity?

    It is’nt Sealand. This unpublished shot from my own collection was taken at Sealand (G-AAIP Cutty Sark). Note the dark panels in Keith’s shot, neither is it Tangmere nor Bircham Newton (where the Hendon was based) as the hangars have light coloured panels like Sealand. In the background is an Irish Avian.

    John

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/Aeroclub/File1847.jpg

    October 29, 2008 at 2:30 pm in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1238597
    John Aeroclub
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    Kev35
    Unfortunately there is no more info in the K Files about that particular Wapiti than I put in my previous post.

    Cheers

    John

    October 29, 2008 at 8:14 am in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1238745
    John Aeroclub
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    If these are the Fury II’s of 73 Sqn then the picture can only have been taken between March 1937 and June 1937, when they moved to Debden to receive Gladiators.

    John

    October 28, 2008 at 9:59 pm in reply to: Photo's of an RAF career 1930's to 1960's ! #1238954
    John Aeroclub
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    Keith, the aircraft in the background are three Hawker Furies and an Avro Tutor. If you can read the serial on the Fury behind that would give us a clue as to which Sqn, and that’s probably their base and the Hendon is a visitor. The Hendon was used only by 38 Sqn and a flight of 115 Sqn. As no Sqn markings are present on the Furies (to my eye) I am wondering if it might be somewhere involved in training.

    Keep them coming please. A quick Edit 73 Sqn had Fury II’s at Mildenhall.

    John

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