The 'Introduce yourself' Thread

Welcome The Baron - You shouild fit in well here and I look forward to seeing your posts.

Can you elaborate on 'Plastic Melting'? I have not heard of this before

Welcome to the forum.

Plastic melting is a new one on me too... Please tell us more!

Plastic melting, for me, was the funeral pyre of badly assembled and painted Airfix models in my junior years:)

Hi guys and thanks! Plastic melting purely and simply refers to my rather amateur efforts at building model kits! Probably not as exciting as you may have been hoping.

Hello,
Thank-you for welcoming me to your group; I am specifically interested in the 305th Bombardment Group, US8thAAF, but - having looked through some of the threads - I can see there's a wealth of information on here on a huge variety of topics which, for a researcher, is simply superb in terms of new avenues to explore!
With good wishes,
Paul Allonby

Welcome to AiX Paul.

The problem with seeing new avenues to explore is that it diverts you from your primary research. I am always going off at a tangent.

In what aspects of the 305BG are you most interested?

Join the club!! One thing always leads to another, but surely that is a good thing, I have lost count of all the interesting things that I have discovered since joining up here, and long may it continue.

Welcome!

Pauline.

Hello,
Thanks for your replies and your greetings. Yes, research does present tempting tangents, but....
My interest in the 305BG is primarily specific - I have written a book on the crews of 'Mi-Amigo' and 'Liberty Run', lost - with two B17s from the 92nd BG - on February 22nd 1944 on a mission to Aalborg in Denmark. Three of the aircraft were lost over Danish airspace, while 'Mi-Amigo' crashed in a park in Sheffield (see thread on here Yorkshire - memorials). (see also www.facebook.com/EndcliffeParkB17 )
Research into the crash of 'Mi-Amigo' led to the project expanding to cover other crews (including two German fighter pilots) lost on that day; now it's a question of finding out more about the missions the 305 flew between Nov 1943 and February 1944 - and their unit, 364 Squadron in particular, for a second edition!
So, once again, thank-you for the warm welcome...I'm just going to have a wander around the Forums....I suspect I may be some time!
Good wishes,
Paul Allonby

Welcome Paul.

Yes "plastic melting" ...put that way, it is something I expect most of us have done.

I am an emigrant from Dorset/Hampshire to Devon...born and lived most of my life in the disputed territory around Christchurch.

"Dorset airfields" have a section on my website you may already have seen it , if not heree's the link.....

dorset.hampshireairfields.co.uk/dorindex.html

I'm Jude and I'm based at Gloucestershire Airport, Kemble and Brize.
I've had my PPL(A) just over 2 years and it's the best thing I've ever done

I found this site by accident while looking for somewhere to land a Eurostar (EV97) this coming Tuesday or Wednesday for a meeting in Croydon, Surrey, as been denied access to Biggin Hill.

Usually fly C150/152, sometimes a C172; PA 28's; a couple of hours LH SR20 and anything else I can my sticky little mitts on.