Pompax wrote: Dakotas landing on 23 at Waterbeach, each aircraft on finals would switch on a single powerful light which seemed to be angled more downwards than forwards
Probably angled for tail-down taxying, which makes sense. I think Lincolns had two-position landing lights, first about 10deg down for approach, second about 25deg down for use after the tail was lowered. When I started night flying we weren't allowed to use landing lights on approach: "it's a taxi light, not a landing light, use the runway lights to judge your approach and roundout"