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Old 6th Feb 2019, 23:50
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Rather than my list, here's my father's more interesting list, from his RAF logbook, in order of first appearance as P1. He did his ab initio training with a civilian FTS, as did many RAF pilots in 1937

DH 82
Hart-T
Audax
Heyford
DH Dragon (DH 84?)
DH84 Dragon Rapide
DH89 Dragon Rapide
Wellington (Incl raid on Brunsbuttel 4th Sept 1939)
Magister
Wallace
Tutor
Oxford
Hornet Moth (noted as "Service aircraft", LFP at Filton.)
Fury
Harvard
Gauntlet
Anson
Botha (March 1940, Brize Norton)
Mentor
Lysander
Defiant
Blenheim
Junkers 52 (Rhodesia Sep 1942)
Wellington III
Lancaster III (1st conversion flight 10 August 1943, 5 operations to Germany from 22 Sept - 2nd October, shot down on 5th, near Munich)
Chipmunk (postwar)

It strikes me that they gave aircraft much nicer names in those days. It is also quite noticeable that once he was on a squadron, his first flights in several types were as P1 with no P2 or passenger, ie read the manual, climb in, start up and go.
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