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Being Biggles Biggles
BeingBeing Biggles Biggles Steve Slater tells the story of a BE-2c which is not quite 100 years old but has a history of its own n May 2011, an Edwardian silhouette was typical of the types flown by Johns, graced the skies above Sywell who in 1918 became an instructor and Iaerodrome in Northamptonshire. light bomber pilot, rather than flying the ‘Biggles Biplane’, a unique replica of a Sopwith Camel fighters of his fictional 1914 BE-2c observation aircraft, made its hero. first flight after a six-year-long restoration, The replica was built by Matthew’s allowing owners Steve Slater and Matthew father, Sywell-based engineer Charles Boddington to fly an aeroplane that might Boddington, as one a fleet of aircraft for have been flown by Biggles himself. the Biggles film, which it was hoped ‘Biggles Biplane’ was built at Sywell in would emulate previous box office hits 1969 as a film replica, designed to look such as ‘The Blue Max’ and ‘Those and fly in an identical manner to Britain’s – Magnificent Men in Their Flying and the world’s – first purpose-designed Machines’. Sadly, however, the Biggles military aeroplane. It was initially film was canned before filming was commissioned by Universal Studios for a even started. planned big-budget movie, ‘Biggles The aeroplane was shipped to Sweeps the Skies’, based on the books by America and sold to a WW1 ‘flying Captain W.E. Johns. circus’. It made its last flight in the The original BE-2 was one of the most- USA on June 14th 1977. -
George Hogarth, Clewiston and Beyond
Clewiston and Beyond Books 1-2015 George Hogarth, Clewiston and Beyond Jenifer A. Harding [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.erau.edu/clewiston-beyond Scholarly Commons Citation Harding, Jenifer A., "George Hogarth, Clewiston and Beyond" (2015). Clewiston and Beyond. 1. https://commons.erau.edu/clewiston-beyond/1 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Books at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Clewiston and Beyond by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. GEORGE HOGARTH CLEWISTON AND BEYOND The story of a young man from Edinburgh who joined the RAF in World War 2 and went out to Florida in 1941 to learn to fly CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1 Before Clewiston Chapter 2 Clewiston (October 2, 1941 to March 12, 1942) Chapter 3 After Clewiston Chapter 4 5BFTS Association Epilogue 1 INTRODUCTION For as long as I can remember, I have known that my father served with the RAF in World War 2. My brother, sister and I grew up with uniforms to dress up in, Log Books to read, and rescue packs and silk maps (useful when bailing out in enemy territory) to look at. My mother was in the WRENS1, and my grandparents, uncles and aunts had all been engaged on active service or other war work. We played with gas masks (they made good feeding bags for rocking horses) and as I was born in 1948, I had a National Identity Card and a ration book. -
Defford Airfield Heritage Group
CONTACT ! The Newsletter of the former RAF Defford Reunion Association, now merged with the DEFFORD AIRFIELD HERITAGE GROUP in partnership with THE NATIONAL TRUST, CROOME http://deffordairfieldheritagegroup.wordpress.com Editor Mike Mullins - email [email protected] Number 135, May / June 2020 Canberra Spotlight see pages 2 to 6 Michael Barnard We look at the work of research Canberra WT333 (above) at It’s sad to report the death of Michael Barnard. Pershore. We also look at nuclear fallout gathering tests in the Prolific Defford wartime artist Pacific. Harry Badger recalls his work on the Canberra at – see pages 9 and 10 Defford, involving emergency “two wheel” landings. The Canberra first flew in 1949 and after a long career was withdrawn from RAF service in 2006, but three are still flying, doing vital space research in the U S A For NASA. (below). Mary Berners-Lee Wartime TRE Malvern Mathematician, pioneering computer scientist and women’s rights activist. See pages 7 and 8 Photo with her husband Conway in 1954. Inset photo of their son, Tim Berners-Lee who invented the World Wide Web X-Plane 11 Martin/General Dynamics RB-57F Canberra 1.0 Canberra Spotlight 1– Canberra WT333 part 1 Canberra WT333 holds a special place in DAHG, as it is owned by members Stephen Reglar, Roger Wintle, Clive Davies, and Tony Waller. The aircraft is kept at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome in Leicestershire. Although it doesn’t have a permit to fly, it can perform taxiing runs, so many of its systems have to be kept in good working order (engines, brakes, hydraulics, electrics, fuel, controls etc.) This is only made possible by the work of dedicated enthusiasts and financial donations. -
Airpilotjune 2018 ISSUE 27
2 AirPilot JUNE 2018 ISSUE 27 RAF ISSUE Centenar y Diary JUNE 2018 AI R PILOT 14th General Purposes & Finance Committee Cutlers’ Hall 25th Election of Sheriffs Guildhall THE HONOURABLE 28th T&A Committee Dowgate Hill House COMPANY OF AIR PILOTS incorporating Air Navigators JULY 2018 12th Benevolent Fund Dowgate Hill House PATRON : 12th ACEC Dowgate Hill House His Royal Highness 16th Summer Supper Watermen’s Hall The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh KG KT 16th Instructors’ Working Group Dowgate Hill House 19th General Purposes & Finance Committee Dowgate Hill House GRAND MASTER : 19th Court Cutlers’ Hall His Royal Highness The Prince Andrew Duke of York KG GCVO MASTER : VISITS PROGRAMME Captain Colin Cox FRAeS Please see the flyers accompanying this issue of Air Pilot or contact Liveryman David Curgenven at [email protected]. CLERK : These flyers can also be downloaded from the Company's website. Paul J Tacon BA FCIS Please check on the Company website for visits that are to be confirmed. Incorporated by Royal Charter. A Livery Company of the City of London. PUBLISHED BY : GOLF CLUB EVENTS The Honourable Company of Air Pilots, Please check on Company website for latest information Dowgate Hill House, 14-16 Dowgate Hill, London EC4R 2SU. EDITOR : Paul Smiddy BA (Econ), FCA EMAIL: [email protected] FUNCTION PHOTOGRAPHY : Gerald Sharp Photography View images and order prints on-line. TELEPHONE: 020 8599 5070 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.sharpphoto.co.uk PRINTED BY: Printed Solutions Ltd 01494 478870 Except where specifically stated, none of the material in this issue is to be taken as expressing the opinion of the Court of the Company. -
From Buchan to Johns: Thematic Variety in Imperial Adventure Fiction
Academiejaar 2008-2009 From Buchan to Johns: Thematic Variety in Imperial Adventure Fiction Promotor: Dr. Kate Macdonald Masterproef voorgelegd aan de Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte voor het verkrijgen van de graad van Master in de taal- en letterkunde: Engels door Kevin Denoyette Denoyette 1 Acknowledgements First and foremost, I should like to thank Dr. Kate Macdonald for her unwavering support, guidance, and – above all – patience throughout this project. She has been graceful in assisting me as I clumsily encroached on her area of expertise, provided erudite commentary whenever it was needed, and I could not have asked for a better mentor. Secondly, I feel obliged to briefly mention my elephant man, Mark Lillas, for his persistent motivation through the summer months and his enthusiastic – albeit limited – proofreading. Denoyette 2 Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................................................... 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS ....................................................................................................................................... 2 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................. 3 1. THE ADVENTURE NOVEL: RISE AND RECEPTION .............................................................................. 4 1.1 AN EMERGING READERSHIP .......................................................................................................................... -
2012 11 November '12
What’s on Vicky Gunnell - Programme Secretary 5 October '12 ......... Double Lecture at the Thomas Theartre ... KESGRAVE 'Clive Stevens - 8th USAAF in Suffolk' - Operation Bolero 'Ken Ellis ex Flypast Editor' - 'Spitfire Heroes' HIGH SCHOOL 2 November '12 ............ An Audio Visual Presentation by ...... CLIVE DENNY 'Vintage Fabrics Aircraft Company - Update' Volume 1 No.4 October 2012 11 November '12 .................. Remembrance Service ......... BARRACK SQUARE www.mhas.org.uk 'A time to Remember the Fallen' 7 December '12 ............... An Audio Visual Presentation ............ TOM TYLER 'When Motoring Was Fun - 1930s Style' - A Light Hearted Fun Presentation Martlesham Heath Aviation Society 4 January '13 ............................ A Presentation by .................... IVAN POTTER 'The Mobile Squadron - WW2' N E W S L E T T E R 1 February '13 ............... An Audio Visual Presentation ...... MARTIN ATKINSON An Almost Forgotten Aviatrice - Edith Cook President: Gordon Kinsey Newsletter Contributions If you have an article or a story you would like to share with the other members of the Society then please send it to me.... Alan Powell - Newsletter Editor Tel: Ipswich 622458 16 Warren Lane RAF Martlesham Heath The Memorials - Barrack Square 356th Fighter Group Martlesham Heath E-Mail Address Ipswich IP5 3SH [email protected] Other Committee Contacts... Chairman Martyn Cook (01473) 614442 Vice Chairman Bob Dunnett (01473) 624510 Secretary Alan Powell (01473) 622458 Treasurer Peter Durrell (01473) 726396 Program Sec. Vicky Gunnell (01473) 720004 Membership Sec. Joe Cox (01394) 282047 Publicity Sec. Howard King (01473) 274300 Rag Trade David Bloomfield (01473) 686204 Catering Peter Morris (01473) 415787 Society Adviser Tom Scrivener (01473) 684636 Society Advisor Colin Whitmore (01473) 729512 Society Advisor Frank Bright (01473) 623853 Society Advisor Peter Thorpe (01394) 386612 Jack Russell Designs EDITORIAL To finish, my poem for this issue is called... -
Conventional Weapons
ROYAL AIR FORCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL 45 2 The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the contributors concerned and are not necessarily those held by the Royal Air Force Historical Society. First published in the UK in 2009 by the Royal Air Force Historical Society All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the Publisher in writing. ISSN 1361 4231 Printed by Windrush Group Windrush House Avenue Two Station Lane Witney OX28 4XW 3 ROYAL AIR FORCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY President Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael Beetham GCB CBE DFC AFC Vice-President Air Marshal Sir Frederick Sowrey KCB CBE AFC Committee Chairman Air Vice-Marshal N B Baldwin CB CBE FRAeS Vice-Chairman Group Captain J D Heron OBE Secretary Group Captain K J Dearman FRAeS Membership Secretary Dr Jack Dunham PhD CPsychol AMRAeS Treasurer J Boyes TD CA Members Air Commodore G R Pitchfork MBE BA FRAes *J S Cox Esq BA MA *Dr M A Fopp MA FMA FIMgt *Group Captain A J Byford MA MA RAF *Wing Commander P K Kendall BSc ARCS MA RAF Wing Commander C Cummings Editor & Publications Wing Commander C G Jefford MBE BA Manager *Ex Officio 4 CONTENTS RFC BOMBS & BOMBING 1912-1918 by AVM Peter Dye 8 THE DEVELOPMENT OF RAF BOMBS, 1919-1939 by 15 Stuart Hadaway RAF BOMBS AND BOMBING 1939-1945 by Nina Burls 25 THE DEVELOPMENT OF RAF GUNS AND 37 AMMUNITION FROM WORLD WAR 1 TO THE -
The Life and Politics of David Widgery David Renton
The Life and Politics of David Widgery David Renton David Widgery (1947-1992) was a unique figure on the British left. Better than any one else, his life expressed the radical diversity of the 1968 revolts. While many socialists could claim to have played a more decisive part in any one area of struggle - trade union, gender or sexual politics, radical journalism or anti- racism - none shared his breadth of activism. Widgery had a remarkable abili- ty to "be there," contributing to the early debates of the student, gay and femi- nist movements, writing for the first new counter-cultural, socialist and rank- and-file publications. The peaks of his activity correspond to the peaks of the movement. Just eighteen years old, Widgery was a leading part of the group that established Britain's best-known counter-cultural magazine Oz. Ten years later, he helped to found Rock Against Racism, parent to the Anti-Nazi League, and responsible for some of the largest events the left has organised in Britain. RAR was the left's last great flourish, before Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, and the movement entered a long period of decline, from which even now it is only beginning to awake. David Widgery was a political writer. Some of the breadth of his work can be seen in the range of the papers for which he wrote. His own anthology of his work, compiled in 1989 includes articles published in City Limits, Gay Left, INK, International Socialism, London Review of Books, Nation Review, New Internationalist, New Socialist, New Society, New Statesman, Oz, Radical America, Rank and File Teacher,Socialist Worker, Socialist Review, Street Life, Temporary Hoarding, Time Out and The Wire.' Any more complete list would also have to include his student journalism and regular columns in the British Medical Journal and the Guardian in the 1980s. -
THE Friends of CROOME PARK 3 1
THE Friends OF CROOME PARK 3 1 e u s s I 0 1 0 2 N Photos: John Hodson M U T John Hodson Worcestershire Wildlife Trust U Something in the water... A any visitors to that arable crops do. Nature Reserve in Redditch. the park this When any one of these At Croome they were first Msummer will factors disappear the algae seen at Snape Wetland on have noticed the large dies off; its presence this 8th August followed by huge R amount of algae on the year doesn’t mean it will numbers on the Croome lake and river. occur in such profusion River. The species was E Algae occur in many forms again. Trying to remove it by observed along the entire and are present in most hand would be futile and soul length of the river and the water bodies - becoming destroying as it is capable of population was estimated to T obvious when ideal growth multiplying faster than it can be in excess of 200. Egg conditions simultaneously be removed. laying was observed and it is T occur. All is not doom and gloom hoped they survive to Most of us have forgotten as this year the lake hosted emerge next year. The last E the hot dry spring and early an extremely rare insect: sightings were on the lake on summer that helped trigger small red-eyed damselflies 12th Sept. L the algal growth. Algae thrive spend a lot of time sitting on Another notable insect in in sunlit, warm shallow water; floating vegetation, the form of a bumble bee S you may have noticed that in especially algal mats. -
Defford Airfield Heritage Group
CONTACT! The Newsletter of the former RAF Defford Reunion Association, now merged with the DEFFORD AIRFIELD HERITAGE GROUP in partnership with THE NATIONAL TRUST, CROOME http://deffordairfieldheritagegroup.wordpress.com Editor: Bob Shaw Distribution: Ann Sterry Number 130, August 2019 BRISTOL 170 WAYFARERS AT DEFFORD ‘FLYING LABORATORIES’, 1948-1956 The Bristol Type 170 Freighter was a twin-engine aircraft designed and built as both a freighter and short range airliner. The airliner version was known as the Wayfarer. The Wayfarer could accommodate 32 passengers plus a toilet. The Freighter version (named as such) boasted opening nose doors and well over 200 were built. Whereas, as a somewhat utilitarian airliner, the Wayfarer had but limited appeal, and only about a dozen were built. Of these, two Wayfarers came to TRE Defford, where they saw valuable service as commodious flying laboratories. ABOVE: Wayfarer VR382 in RAF colours, flying from Defford on July 25th 1950 (All photographs Crown copyright except where acknowledged otherwise) 2. WAYFARER (cont.) For a succinct account of the Wayfarers at Defford, we cannot do better than quote from W.H. ‘Bill’ Sleigh in his epic ‘Aircraft for Airborne Radar Development’ (1986), where he wrote: ‘… two Wayfarers were allotted to TFU, serving the Unit between 1948 and 1956. These two aircraft VR380 and VR382 were both modified as AI systems flying laboratories. Wayfarer VR382 was initially used in 1948 for development flying of the S band AI Mk 16 system, contracted to GEC, which was directed to the post-war F4/48 All Weather fighter requirement, with Anson PH816 as a parallel carrier vehicle. -
Guide to 20Th-Century Non- Domestic Buildings and Public Places In
th Guide to 20 -century Non- Domestic Buildings and Public Places in Worcestershire Published 2020 as part of NHPP7644 Adding a new layer: th 20 -century non-domestic buildings and public places in Worcestershire Authorship and Copyright: This guidance has been written by Emily Hathaway of Worcestershire County Council Archive and Archaeology Service and Jeremy Lake, Heritage Consultant with contributions by Paul Collins, Conservation Officer, Worcester City Council Published: Worcestershire County Council and Historic England 2020 Front Cover Image: Pre-fabricated Village Hall, Pensax. Images: © Worcestershire County Council unless specified. Publication impeded until October 2020, due to the impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic. NHPP7644: GUIDE TO 20th CENTURY NON-DOMESTIC BUILDINGS AND PUBLIC PLACES IN WORCESTERSHIRE CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………………………………………………1 1.1 The planning and legislative background…………………………………………………………..2 1.2 Heritage assets and Historic Environment Records…..……………………………………….3 2. TYPES OF 20TH CENTURY HERITAGE IN WORCESTERSHIRE………………………………………4 2.1 Agricultural and Subsistence (including Allotments) …………………………..………………4 2.2 Civil…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..11 2.3 Commemorative (including Public Art).…………………………………………………………….19 2.4 Commercial……………………………………………………………………………………………………….23 2.5 Communications……………………………………………………………………………………………….31 2.6 Defence…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….36 2.7 Education………………………………………………………………………………………………………….41 2.8 Gardens, Parks and -
W E Johns and Biggles : the Reality and the Legend by Philip L Scowcroft
Occasional Paper 2nd Series No. 343 W E Johns And Biggles : The Reality and The Legend By Philip L Scowcroft William Earl Johns (1893-1968), a children’s writer and journalist, whose hobbies were shooting and fishing, was born in Hertfordshire. When the Great War broke out, he joined up in the Norfolk Yeomanry and served with it at Gallipoli and later with the Machine Gun Corps at Salonika. He transferred to the RFC in 1917, was commissioned as a pilot and joined 55 Squadron, flying DH4s. he was shot down, wounded and taken prisoner in September 1918. He was tried and condemned to death for indiscriminate bombing of civilians (rather like the pot calling the kettle black for the Germans to do that). He was reprieved because of the likelihood of an armistice; there was still time for him to attempt escape from his prisoner of war camp before 11 November 1918. Johns remained in the RAF post-war and was promoted Flying Officer in 1920, being demobilised in 1927 after flying in RAF displays. He became an aviation illustrator, in 1932 he became founder editor of the monthly periodical Popular Flying which introduced the fictional airman Biggles, first in a collection “The Camels Are Coming” (doubtless after the iconic fighter the Sopwith Camel). By the date of his death, Johns had written 102 books involving Biggles showing his hero as a freelance airman, then as a RAF Second War Squadron Leader, fighting in the Battle of Britain in Spitfire Parade (to be historically accurate the title should be “Hurricane Parade” as there were two Hurricanes to every Spitfire in the Battle) and post-war as Sgt Bigglesworth CID of Scotland Yard.