The 'Introduce yourself' Thread

Hi James, Welcome to the forum, regards making models of the aircraft that flew around your area, good luck with that. Don't forget to photograph whatever you make then post 'em up on here for us lot to see

Welcome James, good to see you on here.

Welcome to AiX James. The airfields of Scotland is here:

/community/forumdisplay.php?75-Scotland-Airfields

What is your specific interest in Rattray?

Hello,

Apart from the control tower book (title will be Along the Control Tower) we are also preparing a book (title Broken Dreams) about the unfortunate C-47 that perished during transport to a musical site in Holland. Damaged byond repair. The story will be told by the plane itself.
"Broken Dreams is the remarkable life story of a unique airplane that was supposed to be used for a musical in the Netherlands. But everything turned out quite different than planned. On Friday the thirteenth, August 2010, this particular Dakota was involved in a terrible accident while being transported on the road. This incident, plus many more, will be used to tell the story of this plane – from the plane’s perspective - which will lead her to reflect upon her life and the part she played in history.
If it was a film script you couldn’t write any more action into it, which just goes to show that sometimes life is indeed stranger than fiction. The book will include interviews with people who were familiar with the plane; Rosie the Riveters, the first Air France stewardess, a mechanic, a pilot, a navigator, etc.

A special element of this story is its perspective, because this will all be told as if the plane herself is the one telling her life story. By now she is a fragile elderly lady. Plane lovers will confirm this; a plane is always referred to as being female and especially a Dakota, which is elegant and stylish. This American ‘grand old lady’ will tell her story as if she is a real human being, with emotions, feelings, frustrations, ideas, desires, etc. She is used as a metaphor for a human life from her ‘birth’ (construction in America) to her ‘near death experience’ (the accident) to the moment of her ‘resurrection’ (transformation into a DC-3 simulator).

Beside her life story, which will form the main element of the book, ‘facts’ (interesting factual information), ‘quotes’ and ‘photographs’ will be added as well.

A documentary is also being made, which can complement the book and vice versa. A trailer of the documentary can be seen via: www.vofprodukties.tv/default.asp?pageID=10&lang=eng"

My questionto all: If you are interested please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will keep you informed.

Hi All
Just saying hello
I live in Surrey but spent 4 years in the RAF at west Raynham and spent my younger years on the old sites of Warton and Freckleton.
Duncan

John wrote:

Hi All
Just saying hello
I live in Surrey but spent 4 years in the RAF at west Raynham and spent my younger years on the old sites of Warton and Freckleton.
Duncan

Hi Duncan, welcome


There's interesting things going on at Raynham, have you had a look in that thread yet?

Welcome to AiX Duncan.

What was your RAF Trade?

Hi
Just finished reading the West Raynham thread lots of it.glad to hear it's not been knocked down
I was on 66Sqn A rock ape.
So spent time at Swinderby and catterick and then west Raynham I left the RAF November 91 after we came back from Gulf war 1, while we were there the Queen did a visit for the family's
I remember racing the 101 landrovers down the runway. I left there before it closed but did have a walk around the site in 97 the guard on the gate let us in I do have some pictures somewhere.
I had some got times at West Raynham

Duncan

Forgot to say I,m now in the RAF reserves and spend time at Brize Norton and little Risslington

John wrote:

Forgot to say I,m now in the RAF reserves and spend time at Brize Norton and little Risslington

Which Sqn Duncan?