Cranswick,
Thanks for a very helpful post. The pilot was the vicars son and is buried at Milton Ernest churchyard not far from my village . He was with 137 Squadron at RAF Snailwell previous and used to beat up the vicarage in a Westland Whirlwind presume landing at Twinwood Farm for APC.
Probably asking for a navigation fix or steer ,hit a tree on the approach to the disused Castle Donington airfield. My dad was flying Tiger Moths and Harvards in Rhodesia also at age 19.
Guys, You are going to have a good laugh ,I am building the excellent Airfix T.11 kit and was wondering about the window sizes ,but thank you as i did not realise both side windows could be opened.
Thank you for the helpful comments and links . The clippings look to be taken from the Doc Furniss film taken at Podington with the 92nd Bomb Group. He was a flight surgeon and had his own cine camera, because of his rank and standing he had some levity in using the camera on base.
Hope this link explains better about Freeview TV here in the UK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeview_%28UK%29 Really looking forward to this over Easter ,just very little published about the producer or when it was made can any forumers help ?
Fantastic photographs hope Moggy C gets to see them . Most harrowing is the B-24 “Worry Bird” that had its left stabilizer removed by another B-24 on final approach and you can see it in a hopeless position . Lt Rollins crew were on their last mission of their tour. Nice shot of B-24J 42-40380 of No.223 Squadron Oulton coded 6G:N which was TS532 in RAF service,hope Steve Bond see’s this.
Hello Jim,
On Monday afternoon at 16.15 23 August 1943 Mosquitoes HX849-850 test flying in cloudy conditions collided between Hatfield and Salisbury Hall. All four men were killed wreckage falling at Hill End hospital grounds. Pilots were John De Havilland and George V. Gibbins and their observers G.J.Carter flight shed superintendent,and J.H.F. Scrope,an aerodynamicist. The collision occurred approx 2 miles SW of Hatfield.
Interesting piece here http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/66/a2015966.shtml
The serial of the Javelin T.3 on the Coltishall fire dump in the early seventies was XH396/Z. With it were Varsity WL671/Q ,Vampire T.11 XH298,Meteor F.8s WK786,WF643/X, Lightning F.1A XM188,F.3 XR719/D,XP752/D.
Thanks for the replies guy’s,MarkB that is the one . It was very realistic with sounds and quite busy. It may have been Skegness but I cannot remember where.
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