Hi guys.

Didn’t I see film of this aeroplane on the TV a few months ago?

One of those series with Captain Slow or Clarkson (in sensible mode) or maybe one of the channel 5 series.

Rod

1stThings1st,

In your post #14, you mention ‘Radar Cottages’. This put me in mind of a cottage at the corner of a factory where I once worked. The factory is long gone and I am certain that not many, if any, of the local residents know why it is (still) called ‘Frequency Cottage’.

The factory was previously known within the company as ‘High Frequency Works’ and was allegedly used to produce cables for radar installations using the newly invented polyethylene as dielectric. I was told by an old stager that they were one of ICI’s first customers for their new ‘Polythene’ material, maybe even the first. That would have been in the late 1930s. ‘Polythene’ is now of course a generic term along with ‘Biro’ and ‘Hoover’.

Just thought you may be interested.

Rod

In the pictures of post #25, the top 3 seem to be of 1426 (Enemy Aircraft) flight. Some of the numbers seem to tally. In which case, is that “Black 6” in the centre of the first picture?

The He 177 (not a 277) was captured in France and the He 111 was captured in Egypt, so perhaps not really 100% relevant to this thread.

But, does anybody know anything about the Gotha?

BTW – I was wondering if “meacon” was perhaps the derivation of Dan Dare’s “Mekon”. Not possible to say after all these years I would suppose.

Rod

First flight of AX772 on 15 Feb 1941?

Surely 25th Oct 1940, 2 flights for 35 min.

RAE et al don’t seem to have been very interested in the 110 do they? Judging by the few of them that they flew, compared to, say, Ju88s, 109s, 190s etc.

110 in OP and magazine article went to Vultee Aircraft for analysis.

Rod.

Hi there,

As it happens my son gave me an Xmas present which I think fills the bill.

He gave me a “datashur” 8GB stick similar (but larger capacity) to the ones he uses for his work. I has a keypad to enter a PIN and hardware encryption (to military standard) of the data. Once unlocked it appears as a normal USB stick so no software is needed and it will work on any OS that can use one. Eject it and it locks up automatically, so if you lose it your data is safe.

I believe they are quite pricey compared to the common or garden variety, but how much is your data worth to you? I know that they sell them on Amazon and other places.
Hope this helps,

Rod.

Hi there Dragonfly,

I got it ok on IE 6 and Firefox 2 on Windows 98 running in VirtualBox on Windows XP.

HTH,

Rod.