Recent content by Doodey

Hi Peter, Fancy meeting you on another website discussing 240 squadron SD flight activities ! 😂👍 Chris Howells.

Great information and resources for me to check up on, thank you.

Having had the flame dampening exhausts pointed out to me, I have sourced a set for my model. My next task is getting the paints, White and an Extra Dark Sea Grey plus all the extra bits. Now to work out a match for the decals, letter and s/n. Such fun! 😁

I have seen this photograph before, when I cannot recall. Bringing it back to my attention has made my look much closer. Thank you for pointing out the flame dampeners, a detail I shall have to consider when I start building. As the Special Duties Flight was involved in clandestine operations...

About as good as I can get without using my desktop computer, which I cannot access just now.

Wonderful. This looks more like the colour scheme Dad used in my dim, hazy memory of that model half a century ago. From a quick glance at the avatar, it shows a larger dark area, maybe as W8405 was a replacement for JX311(? I cannot access my archive in the man cave as it is a bedroom for...

Your picture of W8405, if you take a look at my avatar, was in my late Father's collection. Whether he took the picture, or not, is mere conjecture but it was in his photo album. He did offer it to an aeroplane magazine, which one I don't know, in the 70s along with various other types he flew...

Thank you.

My late father was a flight sergeant WOM/AG with 240 squadron’s special duties flight based at Redhills Lake, Madras India as part of the RAF’s SEAC. I am wanting to build a model of one of the Catalinas he flew in at that time: W8405 which his log says was a MK1A, and he described as ”a...

Researching my Dad's career in the RAF from 1942 until 1973.

Loving the info on RAF Catalinas. My late father was a flight sergeant wom/ag with the special duties flight of 240 squadron at Red Hills Lake, Madras. The main aircraft he flew in were FP304, FX311 and W8405, the former was struck off charge in April 1945 after returning, badly damaged, from an...