Thanks Roger.

What a great website, it looks like my mate was nearly spot-on:) .

If the show I saw was in 1971 then the Spit would have been AB910, if it was 1972 then it would have been either PM651 or MH434. It’s a shame I can’t remember the exact year but I was very young at the time.

Thanks again.

Bob.

Dear all, Thanks for all your posts and clearing that up.

I am not an expert but I was just wondering what the main driver was in building MKXVI was over the MKIX LF variant. Shortage of RR engines perhaps?

For that matter why not just concentrate on building the MKXIV if the low altitude performance was satisfactory. I guess the production facilities at Keevil were somewhat limited compared to CBAF.

Hi

I just found out a bit more information from someone who served at 61MU just after the war and I thought I would share it with you.

“At the time I was at 61 MU there were no aircraft on the sites. There were various sites and it was akin to an immennse warehouse. All uniforms, clothing and sundries were stocked on one site. Other sites had lots of spares of widely different uses. Examples are all the various sizes of rivets, screws, nuts and bolts used on aircraft. There were radio, radar, communicating equipment.etc. Tyres for planes were stocked. The thing was, during the war years, lots of items had got mixed up and scattered around so we were sent there for a big re-organisation and tidying up. It was stock taking on a huge scale If you need any more details let me know. We slept on the camp at Wilmslow and went to the sites in vehicles (lorries), every day”

S.

Cheshire Airfields

Thanks for all the fantastic info, I had totally forgotten abouth the name, we used to call it by the nickname of the M1.

I have just foung a good site on Google with a lot more information about RAF Wilmslow including some old photgraphs:

http://www.wilmslow.org.uk/wilmslow/raf/wilmslow-raf.html

Thanks for help.