Recent content by Frank124

I loved these photos of Northolt in 1939/40. I served on 32 there from ‘74 to ‘77 and our office was in the Type C hangar on the airfield side. It was especially fascinating to see our old hangar doors being marked up for setting up the guns.

1. Guy Gibson wouldn't have been in a "Strip Club" as the only naked ladies permitted at the time were at the Windmill (which was a variety theatre) and had to stand motionless. The story has a nice ring to it though, the theatre would have been darkened, the naked ladies would get in position...

These are "Downward Identification Lights" and they were controlled by a switch unit in the cockpit that allowed the colour to be selected and flashed using a morse key on the control unit. The pilot could then signal using the colour of the day, flashing the letters of the day in morse code...