ALL DROMES HAD TWO NAMES

Does anyone have a decent photo of a Pundit Light they can post up? I think there's the top half of one, on top of a building at Sturgate, Notts


I don't know what the building is though.

Richard, I think you're right in saying that the Pundit codes and the airfield ident are one and the same. It was the job of the Pundit Light to flash, in morse code, the station ident.

Chris

Certainly currently the flashed morse code is the same as the station two letter code.
I have pics of a modern morse beacon, willl post up when I can.

NPs book lists them (with the occasional error!) maybe best with Pauls permission to post up a list from there.
Don't forget the two letter codes changed post -war.

The best place to make a start on Station Ident Codes is Dave Smith's "Britain's Military Airfields, 1939-1945" (to which our very own norwichpaul was a contributor!).

Good idea to get something under the audit section though.

Chris

Seem to remember that Civil Fields were Green..Military were red...or am I mistaken...?

I know that Eastleigh(Southampton) was green during the 1950s ..we lived very close to the airfield and could see the beacon.

This site lists the 2 letter station codes and all the airfield call signs;
mighty8thaf.preller.us/

More info on Pundits etc can be found here

www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum/a...a-and-pundit-queries

Probably a typo, St Mawgan is listed as SN, should be SM, but that then makes Swanton Morleys code wrong.

Its good to see these names. Some how brings them back to life.
My interest is airfields of the New Forest including Advanced landing fields.
Does anybody have any information on:
1/Homsley South
2/Christchurch
Christchurch seems to be a real problem, even the sites run by the USAAF squdrons based there dont seem to be any help!

Kit Yardley