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Forum: Military Aviation
7th Nov 2018, 08:04
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,813
Posted By BernieC

Roofing material?

In the images of WAAFs & WRENS, the roofing material looks a bit like palm or banana leaf. Is it?
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Apr 2018, 16:35
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,813
Posted By BernieC

Is any reader of any website ever pleased by a...

Is any reader of any website ever pleased by a software change, no matter how clever, stylish or sophisticated? Of course I am writing because my private navigaton method has been destroyed by this...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Sep 2017, 18:39
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,813
Posted By BernieC

re Typhoons over Normandy by Ken Trott. Two...

re Typhoons over Normandy by Ken Trott.
Two questions/comments:
1. Did others notice that the text is (partly) duplicated?
2. I had never heard of "Wartime News" and went looking for it,...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Jul 2017, 15:29
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,813
Posted By BernieC

re Dunkirk RAF patrols: Some basic info...

re Dunkirk RAF patrols:

Some basic info about tactics are found in Tee Emm for May 1941 at Tee Emm (http://www.aviationancestry.co.uk/tm/)
Forum: Military Aviation
27th May 2017, 21:05
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,813
Posted By BernieC

In 10733 Danny recalled: Which gives me...

In 10733 Danny recalled:


Which gives me the cue for a warning message. I too "acquired" an aircraft "glow-in-the-dark" dashboard clock ca. 1957 (I have forgotten what RAF plane it came from)...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th May 2017, 12:01
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,813
Posted By BernieC

Army Air Cooperation and Support

This lengthy message is prompted by Danny42C’s account (some time ago) of the way in which a small group of Vultee dive-bombers could accurately deliver munitions to a small, hardened target under...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Mar 2017, 20:59
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,813
Posted By BernieC

What is the white bulging object under the wing...

What is the white bulging object under the wing near the fuselage, Please?
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Mar 2017, 18:49
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,813
Posted By BernieC

A motoring anecdote with an aviation connection...

A motoring anecdote with an aviation connection (slight):

My first car was an Austin A35 van, handed on by a Fleet Air Arm friend when he was posted to Singapore in 1959/60. Neat and nippy, but a...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Mar 2017, 11:57
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,813
Posted By BernieC

Fareastdriver Thank you! It was a foregone...

Fareastdriver

Thank you! It was a foregone conclusion that some veteran of this marvellous thread would know where to look.

I am pleasantly surprised that a memory laid down ca. 1943/44 and...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Feb 2017, 19:24
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,813
Posted By BernieC

Gentlemen! While Yorkshire airfields are "on...

Gentlemen!

While Yorkshire airfields are "on topic" may I ask a question? Though I cannot guarantee my starting facts, alas!

A cousin was posted over here as a member of the Royal Canadian Air...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Jan 2017, 16:25
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,813
Posted By BernieC

And the Wikipedia page to which we were referred...

And the Wikipedia page to which we were referred reminded me of another Handley Page-related experience of that time. How it came about I do not recall, but presumably a school-organised visit some...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Jan 2017, 16:16
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,813
Posted By BernieC

Chugalu2 HP Manx must indeed be what I...

Chugalu2

HP Manx must indeed be what I remember seeing, Thank you!
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Jan 2017, 15:07
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,813
Posted By BernieC

MPN11 Thanks for the AW 52G info. I hope you...

MPN11

Thanks for the AW 52G info. I hope you are right, but young as I was then, I am sure that I would have recognized if was being towed and also would have "spotted" a Whitley, a type that...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Jan 2017, 21:09
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,813
Posted By BernieC

This very junior member of pprune is tempted to...

This very junior member of pprune is tempted to try to recall wartime memories in the hope of prompting replies that clarify what he saw but did not understand. My cabinet-maker father was an...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Dec 2016, 14:27
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,813
Posted By BernieC

Danny42C Thank you so much for honouring me...

Danny42C

Thank you so much for honouring me with an understandable answer to my childish question. I am too young to have been anywhere near a bombed-up aircraft so as to see what the arrangements...
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Dec 2016, 11:30
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,813
Posted By BernieC

re post 9845 Another naive question, if I may...

re post 9845
Another naive question, if I may be permitted:

Bomb links and solenoids, etc: how "exactly" were things connected? Or where can one look for such information?
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Dec 2016, 15:56
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,829,813
Posted By BernieC

re the excellent image of a Fairey Battle in post...

re the excellent image of a Fairey Battle in post 9813:
Can anyone please explain the strange layout of the crew positions? It has always puzzled me. I assume the middle man is the navigator and the...
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