Well, so far things have gone well for me.

I’ve been interviewed by the BBC for transmission next year.

I’m waiting to hear if the book I’ve been working on for almost 20 years is going to be published (I’ll find out late October).

Worked at the Festival of Flight, East Fortune, and saw most of the airshow. 🙂
Bought nothing because there was not a single book stall there. 🙁
Saved myself some cash. 🙂

There is still a quarter of the year to go, so I would say so far things have gone wel, and I’m hopeful about the rest of the year, but we’ll wait and see!

Thanks, that’s kind of what I thought. 🙁

I presumed if they had survived, they would have surfaced somewhere and I would have heard of them. A pity, though!

Does this help?

Note where the right hand vertical terminates.

I would suggest this is full size.

Mark

Thanks for this. Your photo shows a Receiver Tower, which does indeed look full-size, although it may not have been the full height (which would have been 240 feet). Septic’s photo showed Transmitter Towers which, if full-scale would have been over 350 feet high. They can’t have been the real thing, because there were no such towers on Malta, and the perspective suggests they are large models. I’m very grateful to see your photo, but I’d very much like to know more about the apparent Transmitter Tower models. With all the knowledge of the film on this forum, surely someone knows about these towers, and perhaps what happened to them. Presumably they were destroyed afterwards?

Sorry to go off topic slightly, but does anyone have any better pics showing the Chain Home radar towers, which can be seen in the background of Septic’s photo of the Ju 87 R/C models? It looks as though the towers are perhaps 15 feet high and I would be very interested in further details.

Now, to contribute to this thread …

My own introduction was when I was given a couple of Airfix kits as a birthday present when a very small nipper. One was the Saab Drakken, the other a Focke-Wulf Fw 190. I found the Drakken of little interest – it didn’t do anything, whereas the Fw 190 had a rotating prop, so to a 5 or 6 year old, this was very interesting. I started to save up and buy books about wartime aircraft and it took off from there.

How I got into researching radar history is an altogether different story, which I won’t bore you with.

One of his lesser known books I think was a book on RAF Escape stories from all regions. I cant remember the title off hand – but it was one hell of a read.

Would this be Escape – or Die by Paul Brickhill? This is described as “the true stories of eight daring escapes from captivity by men of the RAF – each an epic, a feat that fires the imagination …

S/L McCormac’s horrifying and amazing escape from Malaya to Australia by way of Java.

The air gunner who was helped by a Stettin prostitute.

The escape from Sicily to Switzerland of a fighter pilot left for dead by a German firing squad.

The bomber crew saved by a mircale in the desert.

The navigator who escaped to the Russians and rode in a Cossack cavalry charge.”

Ah, beat me to it Moggy!