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[Chris H]

Hi everyone,
I must admit that I can't recall joining the site, but I have been getting the update emails for a while now! Mind you, I do have PTSD, so that may be the reason for the senior moment!
I grew up in N Wales, where the skies were always full of training aircraft from 4 FTS at RAF Valley.
I made my first model when I was 6, that's nearly 58 years ago!
And then I joined the Army - go figure!
I'm now retired, after a very interesting life as a soldier and civil servant.
My main interests are model making, photography of aircraft and I spent a number of years as a volunteer at the IWM, Duxford. I also looked after the UK's photo interpretation collection (The Medmenham Collection) when I was an imagery analysis instructor, so if you have any questions about air photography, I'll do my best!
Cheers,
Chris

 

[fubar57]

Welcome to the site Chris.....or welcome back as the case may be

 

[Chris H]

I think it's "Welcome back"! I've just found my first and only post from 2010, when I posted a question about the B-17G chin turret! I was working at RAF Molesworth here in the UK and our US colleagues had been given a recovered .50cal Browning from a wreck site in the Cheviot Hills here in the UK. We wanted to do some conservation work on it at the time. I don't know what happened to the gun, as people were rotated out shortly after and interest seemed to wane!

 

[vikingBerserker]

Very cool, welcome back!

 

[Airframes]

Welcome back. Seems we have similar backgrounds and interests. I was a Civil Servant before the Army, trained in aerial photo interpretation, among other things, and then went on to a civilian career in the photographic industry.

 

[Chris H]

Welcome back. Seems we have similar backgrounds and interests. I was a Civil Servant before the Army, trained in aerial photo interpretation, among other things, and then went on to a civilian career in the photographic industry.

Where did you do your PI course?

 

[Airframes]

Part at Coy level, and most at the then SF HQ at Duke of Yorks HQ, Chelsea, with RAF instructors. It was around the time things were changing, with the DSOP at Cosford at capacity, so instructors were seconded to SF for the course.

 

[Njaco]

From one Chris to another Chris...from across the pond, welcome!

 

[Crimea_River]

So you came to the party, sat quietly at the bar and scoped us out before deciding we were worth talking to. Smart man!

Welcome aboard.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Welcome!

 

[Gnomey]

Welcome!

 

[Chris H]

Thanks for the welcome folks! I've already been in contact with another member who served with me way back when! I'm going to enjoy this site...

 

[Chris H]

Part at Coy level, and most at the then SF HQ at Duke of Yorks HQ, Chelsea, with RAF instructors. It was around the time things were changing, with the DSOP at Cosford at capacity, so instructors were seconded to SF for the course.

Interesting... I did my Imint course at JSPI, then at RAF Wyton, after a tour behind the Iron Curtain, then I was an instructor when JSPI moved to Chicksands when it became a UK base again.