I know from experiance that the RAF museum may not hold the FAA maps but it is worth a try perhaps they do have one. The maps from the RAF museum for RAF airfields are very detailed and have almost every building listed but the maps from the PRO don not. Also if you want to see a plan of a particular building then the RAF museum also hold a copy of the building plans which the PRO do not. Just give them the ref number on the airfield map for a building and they will send you a building layout plan if they have it.

FAA airfields in my experiance are more difficult to get a map but not impossible. I got one for a FAA airfield and while not as highly detailed it had what the main buildings use were and a few other details. It has since become known that there is a maze of underground tunnels and conduit piping which a local group hold the plans for. Contact local groups and perhaps the Airfield Research Group as they might be able to point you in the right direction for your research.

http://www.airfield-research-group.co.uk/

this forum is turning into a total balls up. Forum keeps crashing and cant post piccies. At least the last forum only stopped working for a while until fixed but never let us down with the piccies. Bloody programs and Bloody sofware.

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just a test guys.

Not really my family but my Wifes. Her Aunt Mary Thorpe was a WAAF during the war and part of her duties included being taken to, what could be described as, an aircraft scrap yard and remove the radios and other equipment to be used in the Lancs that were on the airfield. At least that is what the family story is anyway. She recalled being driven by an airforce man out to a parked lot of aircraft for her duties that day to remove items and were supposed to be picked up around 4 pm as it was starting to get dark at that time but no one arrived so they had to stay there until someone did go for them. It was around 9 – 10 oclock when someone remembered about them and did finally collect them.

She also wrote a diary and a book that was never published and also visited Berlin and took some part in the after conflict organisation.

Would love to know more but she has passed on now and we dont have any contact with that side of the family and dont even know where they are.

I think a lot of family stories are lost this way.

Originally posted by RadarArchive
Scott,

Can I ask what the hangar displays consisted of this year? The last time I was there they were pretty much all various sections of RAF Leuchars, rather than the various local clubs and societies like the display used to be. I’d much rather go and see a display from Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum, for example, than one by the Fire Section of Leuchars, and this change a few years ago was one of the reasons for me not going back. I’d be interested to know if this is still the case – your photos make it look as though the indoor exhibition was a bit more interesting this year!

Well what I remember about the hangar was :-

Part of a hangar was showing various pieces of stripped down tornado as part of the Leuchars technical side.

In the other hangar there was The robot wars Typhoon team display. Next to it the Eurofighter display. After that there was a simulator much like the link trainer but smaller. Next I think there was a car display for some local garage ????? Cant remember but there was a display. Further up the hangar there was a book and model stall selling stuff. Could have been Montrose air Museum as I recognised some of the stuff. There were a few aircraft up the top end if I remember. Then another model stall but also more model kit not for sale but as a display of older kits available. Next to that there was the car , truck and a few other bits and pieces. And after all that there was a cutaway Merlin and East Fortunes display which was a couple of staff sitting there. Then the planes mentioned Se5a and Tiger Moth.

Have I missed anything folks.??