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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
19th Sep 2016, 10:47
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Post #56 above - no title

Hello Pita,

Almost 2 years on I'm afraid, so please accept my apologies. Illness, a house move from the north back to the south of England, and finally a vicious computer hack(!!) intervened,...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Feb 2014, 14:10
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Suzanne Ashton. Nee: Chapman

Hello morrowmm,


Abject apologies for my long delay responding to your messages, due to illness, then my wife's illness - both concurrently with a close family member's (continuing) disappearance...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
1st Apr 2011, 19:59
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Heston 'Tempest' crash

Early autumn 1945 was locally very eventful then, what with the Ju88 crash a month later, the Fleet Air Arm show including, as far as I know, Heston's first, perhaps only, jet (Geoffrey de Havilland...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
1st Apr 2011, 19:38
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Splendid story, and clearly a memorable trip...

Splendid story, and clearly a memorable trip Alan! :D

David
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
19th Mar 2011, 10:34
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Ju88 crash, Fern Lane/Me262 waiting for spares at Ford

Hello atb1943

Now we're really motoring :) A post from a subscriber in Germany, who has been to South Africa, to see the Me262 apparently responsible for the Ju88 being at Heston in the first...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
18th Mar 2011, 00:33
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Tempest(?) crash, Winchester Avenue, Heston

In class at Norwood Green Junior School, one day some time in the late 40's (I left the school in 1949), we all heard a fast descending high powered aircraft, apparently on full power - followed by...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
17th Mar 2011, 22:16
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Fern Lane Ju88 crash

Looks unlikely that Flt Lt D G M (Doug) Gough was the pilot. As a Flt Sgt at the time, he was one of the original pilots when Number 1426 (Enemy Aircraft) Flight was formed in November 1941 and, like...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
17th Mar 2011, 15:38
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Fern Lane Ju88 crash

Have just got my used/good condition copy of "War Prizes" via Amazon (thanks for the lead, Kieron) - looks brilliant and, on Page 84, there's some more information on the aircraft. It was delivered...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
15th Mar 2011, 09:37
Replies: 80
Views: 35,101
Posted By AWF118

B36's, then B47's over Heston

If covered earlier in the thread, apologies but B36's were commonplace high over West London in the early post war years - tracking out over the radar monitoring system at the old Heston Airport,...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
14th Mar 2011, 14:37
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Ju88G-6 Fern Lane crash - Kiel-Z and FuG.220/SN-2

Here's the FuG.280 infrared target tracking system nose installation, as it would have been before the crash. The dipole aerials around it are for the FuG.220 radar ("SN-2" system, as referenced in...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
14th Mar 2011, 10:44
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Ju88 crash and B17 Silver Queen

The first of these photos is of the Ju88 some time after its crash.

I think, although I can't be sure, that salvage had already begun and the aircraft had been dragged clear of the house, far...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
13th Mar 2011, 23:30
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Heston Crashes and Incidents/Heston Ju88 Kiel Gerat

Hi Ayoyo30. Yes, confess I got it wrong - and tried to post earlier to say so, and to give an update, but due to an internet connection failure, I had been logged out, and the post was lost. Grrrrrr!...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
13th Mar 2011, 16:32
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Heston Crashes and Incidents

No prob re the deletion. Guessed something like that must have happened (although my guesswork didn't extend as far as you chucking 2p coins at your missus :)), and also guessed that the Ju88 photo...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
13th Mar 2011, 10:24
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Heston Crashes and Incidents

I've had a system email alert to a post by A30yoyo, including text of a reply he made re the 95th BG B17F but for some reason, it's not here - since deleted? Anyway, he said at that point that the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
12th Mar 2011, 17:01
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Heston Crashes and Incidents

If Curtis LeMay's "Silver Queen" was the B17F with that same name, operated by the 334th Squadron in the 95th Bomb Group, its serial number was 42-29780. Website 95thbg.org refers, and also has two...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
12th Mar 2011, 00:21
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Heston 'runway' length

That's probably about right but it was not the usable 'runway' length. In 1934, ten cubic yards of chalk were put down to create a white dotted line, indicating the approved take off and landing axis...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Mar 2011, 17:43
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Sea Mosquito - and my woggle

Admiral Cunningham must have missed that := He didn't spot that my woggle was crooked either :O
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Mar 2011, 22:05
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

More Heston Air Display

..and I see that Admiral of the Fleet Lord Cunningham was there. He was lucky enough to meet (well, inspect :) ) me a few years later, as a Boy Scout in a parade out in front of St Pauls Cathedral -...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Mar 2011, 21:39
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Heston Display

Thanks for the birthday issue of Flight (I was eight that very day!), duly printed off and tucked in the back of "Coming in to Land".

No sign of Winkle Brown but it seems that I was privileged...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Mar 2011, 18:10
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Winkle Brown

Would be interesting to know if (as the naval test pilot) Winkle Brown was at the Heston Fleet Air Arm display on 2 October 1945? I'm currently reading the book he's holding up on the FAST webpage,...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Mar 2011, 14:17
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Vampire at Heston

Fantastic Movietone footage thanks - even though I can't actually be seen up my tree ("...I also remember climbing a small tree then on the airfield boundary about there, to watch my first jet (a...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Mar 2011, 07:12
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Grass runway length and Ju88 crash

Glad that between us we've put the Ju88 on record here - and glad, to be honest, to have confirmation I didn't dream it.

The grass runway at Heston was 1000 yards long in 1939, as shown on the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
9th Mar 2011, 15:19
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Not a bomber base

Greetings Props. Probably not, as I didn't join until 1951. I'll PM or email in case we were neighbours though.

On another tack, the statement in the first quote, part of the opening post here,...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
9th Mar 2011, 08:11
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Fern Lane crash

Result! Many thanks Ciarain. Copy just ordered from Amazon. Shows my 73 y.o. memory is not infallible then - must have been upper cockpit Perspex and it was a fared in nose version after all. Mind...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
8th Mar 2011, 22:59
Replies: 63
Views: 34,743
Posted By AWF118

Red face Fern Lane crash

The crash into the house, corner of Fern Lane/North Hyde Lane, just outside the eastern Heston boundary, was neither the P51 (Grange Farm House - google "Woodasons"), nor the B17 (over the north west...
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