Well the stencil reads in English translation. Do Not Touch. Which ties in with it being Aileron etc.

Interesting to see what others can put to this.

Robert I wouldnt bother going to the arts and crafts gallery wartime Drem display as it no longer exists. Abandoned a few years ago. But some of the items exist in a smaller display in one of the other Fenton Barns buildings. Another place took the items under their wing and displays them albeit poorly from what I was told. I may be able to let you know which building it was. Might take some time though.

Just as an experiment does anyone on here have any ideas on the aircraft and or pilot. I mean mostly we get info back within an hour about various different request we post on here.

Can we the people supply an aircraft ID and or Pilot ID.

Just shows the people can sometimes be more effective than the powers that be.

Certainly seen that being the case on here several times.

Hi Robert,

Yes any info you have regarding relatives would be greatly appreciated.

As you may have gathered Drem is my collegue and if you could pm me or Drem that would be great.

Obviously pictures of the crew is the thing most of us here strive to find as it puts a face to the name sort of thing.

As Drem said Acklington was where 141 sqn was based at the time and East Fortune was simply the closest air base with a mortuary.

Probably the nearest airfield to the crash site too.

Paul,

You mention that the deaths are registered at Cockburnspath in 1944. Is that just a typo or do you have the record. I have just downloaded the Death Register entry and it clearly states 1942 which is correct for the date of the accident. Also you state that the aircraft crashed into the ground at night. Again the death register states that the time of death was 3h 40min PM which would be 15.40 PM to us. Given that it was during may it would have been light until evening. So the only other visibility factor would have been bad weather.

Where did you read that it was at night. Can you state your reference.

Not trying to bring anyone down or snipe at anyone. Thanks for all your hard work. We just want to get the details right thats all.

As far as I am aware one of the pilots was hitching a lift back to England. I believe it was quite common practice to do this. Not sure how practical this was in a Beaufighter but presuming they were going from East Fortune to Acklington its only about a 30min flight isnt it?

There have been many lives lost while catching a lift to another base. I know of a few but these are mainly bombers.

Anyone know of any other incident with Beaufighters where there was someone catching a lift?

In this case Ebay must respond by removing any vehicle from their listing as they are all Weapon Delivery Systems.

I mean any aircraft could be piled into a building and explode. This we know and have seen it happen on a grand scale and on the smaller Cessa typed scale too.

Cars Vans and Lorries can all be packed with fertiliser or other home made weapons and used as a bomb or a rocket platform. Commonly used by terrorists and commonly used by the IRA in the past as a mortar platform.

Motorbikes maybe not so much so but these can be used to great effect for drive by shootings so these too deliver weapons.

Lastly water bourne craft. As with all of the above this is a weapon carrying device too. Just load up with explosive and aim for the nearest ship.

It can all go a bit too far really.

Anyone remember the MIGS for sale on ebay. Did they ever get sold does anyone know?