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- Mon Dec 13, 2010 6:47 pm
- Forum: General Section
- Topic: Looking 617 Squadron Details
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9836
Re: Looking 617 Squadron Details
Sorry Alex - a slip of the finger - on my keyboard X & C are adjacent. Yes I did of course mean you - knowing your pedigree and scholarship. Alec is my Scots cousin! Actually, I have a good Scots friend whose Uncle was lost on the dams raid. He has called me Alec for years! But as you were so k...
- Mon Dec 13, 2010 6:37 pm
- Forum: Research documentation
- Topic: Lancasters of No.3 Group
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11124
Re: Lancasters of No.3 Group
Hi Dennis Well its a good way of working together. I and others like me who are collectors and researchers, have manuals, documents and actual items (I collect flying gear, uniform, insignia etc) so can give good descriptions on what was there, how it work, how it was worn or constructed etc. Having...
- Sun Dec 12, 2010 9:06 pm
- Forum: Research documentation
- Topic: Lancasters of No.3 Group
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11124
Re: Lancasters of No.3 Group
The Dinghy had a cover which was secured by a rubber cover strip (although I dont know if it was painted red or made of a red coloured rubber). The cover also had an inspection window in. The dinghy itself was released in two ways - manually by pulling on a cord that ran most of the length of the fu...
- Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:55 pm
- Forum: General Section
- Topic: Welcome Dennis - RAF Two Tour BC Veteran
- Replies: 23
- Views: 15132
Re: Welcome Dennis - RAF Two Tour BC Veteran
Hi Richard
Glad you've come and joined us!
Alex
Glad you've come and joined us!
Alex
- Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:49 pm
- Forum: General Section
- Topic: Looking 617 Squadron Details
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9836
Re: Looking 617 Squadron Details
Steve Perhaps I can help (I assume David meant me although he spelt my name wrong! See what happens when you get old ;) ) I've been researching 617 Squadron for some years now, and was asked to write a Squadron history which was published last October. Like Operation 'Glimmer', 'Taxable' was a diver...
- Fri Dec 10, 2010 3:37 pm
- Forum: Research documentation
- Topic: 467 Sqn 'Ton Up' Lanc
- Replies: 24
- Views: 25622
Re: 467 Sqn 'Ton Up' Lanc
G'day Kerry, nice to see you join us. 'Halifax' is causing all the mayhem as usual! Dennis - the fairing around the mid-upper (similar on later Stirlings and others) was shaped so that the two small wheels following it would direct the guns up and over the tailfins. Saying that, I've never heard of ...
- Fri Dec 10, 2010 3:30 pm
- Forum: General Section
- Topic: Seeking refuge.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6874
Re: Seeking refuge.
David, nice to see you here! Like you, I am not a Stirling expert although I love the ole girl. There are quite a few refugees from LAF, most being banned from that site now, and to aid us poor souls a general forum has been opened which takes in all subjects. Do check it out and contribute as you h...
- Fri Dec 10, 2010 3:26 pm
- Forum: General Section
- Topic: abbrev help from HCU entry
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3882
Re: abbrev help from HCU entry
D.C.O. is 'Duty Carried Out', so perhaps D.T.C.O. is 'Duty Technically Carried Out' or similar. Thus, thew whole thing, 'Cross Country, Duty Technically Carried Out, 3 Engined Return'."28/ 10/ 44 - A:S:F., X-C D.T.C.O. 3.E. RETURN"
- Fri Dec 10, 2010 3:20 pm
- Forum: General Section
- Topic: Captured Stirling in Luftwaffe Markings
- Replies: 13
- Views: 22648
Re: Captured Stirling in Luftwaffe Markings
but the underside is yellow with German crosses onHey - that is brill - thank you Wayne. But it is being done in England. I thought it was the Germans who taped the tarpaulin on - or am I have another Senior Moment??
David, Really...
- Fri Dec 10, 2010 12:06 pm
- Forum: Research documentation
- Topic: Airfield call signs
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11087
Re: Airfield call signs
Woebetide anyone calling a WAAF at Wombleton...