I have 74 accidents/incidents listed to Masters in Nottinghamshire (so far!)
Master III DL890 spun into ground during aerobatics somewhere in the Nutall Rd./Whitemoor Ave. area, 9th June, 1944. Thats the one? Is the gap in the tree visible on Google Earth Street View?

The above is the crash I referred too. I haven’t been by there for many years but the local aviation society used to meet at The Whitemoor Pub some 25 years ago, I think that it might have been David Birch who pointed it out to me. If I remember the spot was
almost opposite the Whitemoor Pub on Nutall Rd and just short of the ring road and before the junction with Whitemoor Ave. The missing tree space was visible then but there have been changes to the area in the passing years.

John

Brian

The Flight photo shows one of about three radio installations in the Proctor. The pilot is sat in the normal position in this layout beside the radio. The radio op is sat further back out of sight on the swivel seat in debate.

This is another layout with a swivel seat whose construction is different to the pilots seating. I don’t know if the swivel seat had any variations between the Proctor 1-II-III and IV.

John

https://flic.kr/p/22JK6Xo

Brian

The radio ops seat in the Proctor 1 to III is different to the pilots seats and is mounted on a swivel base. I don’t have a good photo of one. The Britmodeller photos are of a Proctor IV in a four seat comms layout. The attached drawing is from an early ATC magazine and omits the radio installation.

John

https://flic.kr/p/22KYVnk

Proctor radio ops seat?.

John

I can claim to have seen a Vulcan roll. I was walking home from school Hollingwood just north of Manchester at the age of ten (1952 time) when I saw a large White or Silver triangular plane quite a way off, do a definite roll over in the Chadderton direction. My Dad had worked at Avro’s factory at Chadderton during the war. I seem to remember a coloured cutaway in Eagle about that time. and ten years latter I would be working on a Vulcan squadron.

John

I’m just grateful to the regulars who take the time to photograph and post their superb photos.

John

There is a photo in the Putnams Aircraft of the Royal Air Force of a 3FTS Harvard IIB FX291 code FBU * S of RAF Feltwell on page 412. It appears to be O/A Silver with (I presume) Yellow wing bands. Black anti glare panel, C type roundels and fin flash with thin white centre band.

John