Dundee Courier - Friday 12 September 1952V.C. knew all about them
Flight-Lieutenant Bill Reid, Glasgow V.C., brought Mrs Reid yesterday to look over the Lancaster on show at Glasgow Art Gallery. Waiting to assist Mrs Reid is Flight-Lieutenant Holler, whose last meeting with Bill Reid was in a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. Flight-Lieutenant Reid flew in Lancasters during the war.
This appears in the Q & A column of Aeroplane magazine for May 2023.
Appears to be shot with a wide angle lens thus the distortion.
What looks like a 'C type hangar at left background; the tower itself seems to be a wartime one; the VCR seems to be octagonal rather like Barton; the runway designator of course has the numeral '1' in ''31' upside down!
I wonder if the original picture has compressed sideways although the vehicle looks right? I originally thought this as the numbers looked too narrow.
On the other hand the roof VCR looks like a flat back and two sides with a three side front. If the main tower was also three sided on the front this would explain the apparent squashed look. No much help though
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
Looking at photos of RAF Nicosia on another website, it would appear to bear some resemblance although the 'mystery' tower looks to be somewhat smaller than Nicosia.
Could it be of one of the 'other' airfields built on Cyprus in the '40s of which there were 8 excluding Nicosia and excluding Akrotiri which was much later.?
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