http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1943/oct/20/clerks-at-raf-stations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Maintenance_Command

This is the hut very close to Dobbs Lane.

If my memory serves me correctly, its post-war and it function was as a generator room for powering landing light experiments.

More pics here:

http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/showthread.php?257-Martlesham-Heath/page10

Please help identify Goose I

Source: ‘Aircraft of The Fighting Powers’ from 1942 and another book whose title page has been lost but on pg 170 it states:

“Photo shows JRF-6B….” and is credited to Grunman Aircraft.

From another thread, these were the definitions as I understand them,

RAF = Airfield (as defined in A.P.3236)
Light personal use, no facilities = Landing Ground
Civil landing field with minor facilities = Aerodrome
Passenger, Commercial & Freight (usually with customs) = Airport

I was taught this in the ATC (that’s the organisation for youth) though I remember that Permanent customs facilities separated Aerodrome from Airport.

Also, we were taught never ever to use the word “raff” for if we did the heavens would open up and a thunderbolt hit us!:D

Date : 1995
Title : Cold Comfort Farm
Film/TV : Film for TV
Aircraft Type : DH.60 Gypsy Moth Shuttleworth collection
Idents : G-ABAG

Picture of a model A.O.P.? in Airbrushing For Modellers by Goldman and Rubenstein 1974.

Stripes only to wings. Undersurface is black extending up sides. Brn / Grn camouflage upper surface. No serial letters/numbers visible.

Model credited to Bill Quinn

If anyone can match 1/72 model with a photo of a real one, I’d be interested.

In my old age my memory really does play tricks on me and I’m sure the late Ludovic Kennedy did a documentary about the Bismark.

Why not try contacting the digital channel Yesterday and asking them if they know of it and whether they have any plans to screen it?

Also, VHS tapes can be repaired by dismantling the case, aralditing the the torn tape to the trailer (transparent part of the tape) so that it does not touch the heads and finding a second tape ( cut off unwanted tape) for the remaining spool and follow procedure as before. I hope that makes sense. Its fiddly and a dummy run might be a good idea.

Good luck and welcome to the forum!:)

If anyone has The War IllustratedVol. 1, October 14th 1939 on page 156 is an account of the rescue[there was a third and fourth aircraft] the pic above and Capt. Schofield thanking two officer airman and…. tantalising a pic of the tailplane upper surface! Only because of the light, rather than any camouflage, it appears white!

Sea conditions are described as “swell. Ship’s crew was 34 and they did not know if they were hit by torpedo or shell on the starboard side from the U-boat a mile away?! I’ll transcribe more of the account if sufficient interest.