JDK,

How else are you supposed to reduce the size of the image then? Don’t worry, I’ll weld the rest back on tomorrow.

Geoff.

Maybe it’ll be okay with the new server, come mid-October?

Bingo 🙂 size of image is 28.2 KB.

Dan,

Can you send me a PM with your e-mail address, and some info re what sort of, & how much reference material you need, and roughly how long it takes to do a profile etc.

The only profile I could do with at the moment is Hurricane IIb Z3436 of No 302 sqdn, around the June/July 1941 period. The problem is I don’t know the individual code letter it carried, and I would need it by the 19th October. I’ll try a thread on the forum, see if anyone else can help re Z3436.

I know it’s a very tall order, so don’t worry if you can’t help.

Geoff.

Snapper,

I’ve no problem with you using it on your website, with a link to the Shoreham Aircraft Museum website, but you will need to approach the museum to ask for permission to use it first. If you also include a link to the Geoff Nutkins Avi-Art website, they may well allow you to use an image of the ‘Castle Farm Dornier’ print, plus some of the other images, with the article.

Write to- Shoreham Aircraft Museum, High Street, Shoreham Village, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN14 7TB. Explain about your website, and that you want to use the article on it. You can tell them that it’s okay with me (Geoff, the editor).

Re Sunday, I would love to be there, but despite living an hours drive from Duxford – as I have no car – I have to go by train via London, which means changing umpteen times, taking 3 1/2 hours, and not being able to get there before 11am at the earliest, so it’s a no go I’m afraid. Saturday would have been better for me, or a meet at Hendon/Brooklands. Maybe next time

🙁 🙁 🙁

Geoff

I’d just like to mention that the article ‘Down on the farm’ (re the Castle Farm, Shoreham, Dornier) is, with one or two slight changes, a reprint of the article that I wrote for the last issue of ‘Friends of The Few’, the Shoreham Aircraft Museum newsletter.

It seems that the article was sent to Ken Ellis, by our curator, as background information, to the use of the Castle Farm Dornier print with the 609 sqdn article. I was amazed to open a copy of FlyPast this morning in WHS, and find myself reading my own words, and to find that the article had been credited in error to our curator 😡 Cest la vie. I shall forgive him as long as he signs my name on his next print instead of his. 🙂

Geoff.

Not to mention the live firing against a splash-target, the TFC Beaufighter sinking an old hulk with RPs, and a Catalina and Sunderland deptcharging a old navy sub.

Geoff.

RadarArchive,

I think that you were just unlucky re not getting next of kin info re Gibson’s Nav. A lot of the entries on the CWGC database don’t have details of n-o-k, but this is down to the families not answering, or supplying the info, when the CWGC tried to contact them after the war. See the ‘FAQ’ page for more info. I am still getting n-o-k info on the new website. Glad to see we can now seach by cemetery now, as well as by name.

I have a copy of the letter that was sent to the families by what was then the IWGC, which told them about the arrangements for marking the graves, and details of how they could chose a personal inscription for the base of the headstone. Out of interest the ‘example’ headstone is for P/O F.P Brown RAF, 15th September 1940, aged 21′, obviously a made-up casualty. I wonder if families of naval or army casualties recieved an ‘example’ from the appropriate service?

Geoff.

Why not visit the Shoreham Aircraft Museum as well while you’re in the area? 🙂

Geoff.