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40. Mke(Paddy) Flood - 2009-05-02 13:16:58 |
Keep the good work Mick!!! now you have managed to settle at what maybe your last posting before full retirement!!!!(sic).
Has anyone thought of or tried to have a set up of Recce packages, being as most of the "wet film" equiptment is pretty much redundant. As a suggestion, there must be some aspiring, pre-retirment person who wishes to leave a last mark of the history of one of the main reasons why we had a RFC/RAF in the first place.
Keep up the good work, I still visit this site.
Regards Flight or is it W.O. (man)
Mike Flood |
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39. Dave Lefurgey - 2009-03-17 05:00:04 |
Hello;
Just stumbled onto your websaite doing research for my book on my uncle, Bob Niven. He was a Canadian who joined the RAF & was trained as a pilot in 1935, then was recruited with Sidney Cotton by MI6/Deuxieme Bureau to do spy flights in a civil Lockheed 12A Electra Jr (3 in fact, and a Beechcraft), but I’m guessing that most who read this web site already know some of the story. Seems to be some misinformation out there too. When war began they did sorties for the NID & Ian Fleming sent them over Ireland to look for any U-Boat docks, then the RAF took them over. Niven & another RAF pilot, Maurice "Shorty" Longbottom took one of their first two Spitfires to France to prove out their methods operationally, which they did. Shorty did ops from Heston & Niven from France until they trained enough pilots to help out. I have a French photo ID card naming Bob Niven as the "Commandant" of 212 sqdn, and I suspect he was their C.O. from about Mar or Apr 1940 until it was merged with the PRU in June. Have many letters, photos, etc., & the RAF’s AHB are being a great help in reconstructing the events. Great to see your website. Take care, Dave
Dave,
Thank you for visiting the site, it’s excellent to hear from someone who is part of a family of true hero’s and people of great vision.
Mick - webmaster airrecce. |
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38. Mike Maskrey - 2009-02-07 18:41:12 |
Hiya Mick,
This is a fabulous website my friend!! 
Mike M. |
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37. Dave Humphrey - 2009-01-24 22:39:03 |
Hi Mick, just reviewed your web site and what a magnificent effort it is. Congratulations and I have a ton of stuff you will want to incorpoarte to fill in the gaps.
Perhaps we do a chapter on the key personalities in the history of aerial recce also; such as Daddy Laws, Sidney Cotton, Adrian Warburton, Norman Shirley, Ron Hadden, Col Elliot Roosevelt USA, Ron Fox,Colin Williamson, Tony Hill, Constance Babington-Smith, Jack Eggleston, Peter Lewer and many others who contributed to the magnificent success of allied recce. I have the stories I just don’t have the expertise for putting into a web site.
best wishes
dave Humphrey |
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36. Derrick Cain - 2009-01-14 23:50:19 |
Very good, I came across your website via the plane talk forum,
I served with 79 Squadron in Germany 1954/5 as a photographer.
Used the F24 & F95 cameras. I have a few photos of those days.All the Best
Derrick |
 35. Mathew Barron - 2008-07-25 21:53:04 |
Had a look around your site.... Good job!!! If you ever need or want some close up shots of a PrXIX Spit just let me know  |
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34. Jon Zanone - 2008-06-14 02:03:31 |
Cool site - I was a processor with the 12 Tactical Reconaissance Squadron, Bergstrom AFB, TX (85-89) and the the 496 Reconaissance Technical Squadron, RAF Alconbury (89-93). It’s good to see the "Alone, unarmed and unafraid" crowd being remembered (as well as us PPIF rats)!
Jon |
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33. Mike (paddy) Flood - 2008-06-09 23:07:10 |
Tripped across your website while looking for some photos of the Harrier Recce Pod, the old one that is. Former APoP and ACF 1976-1983. nowjust a modelbilder.
Keep up the excellent site.
Regards Mike |
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32. Eric DiNicola "Goblin� - 2008-05-31 14:16:23 |
Site is really cool! Get those WW2 Luftwaffe and Japanese links running! 
Keep up the work, it is appreciated.
eric aka Goblin |
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31. Dan Fromm - 2008-05-08 22:22:22 |
Interesing site. One minor correction re the F95 camera. I have in hand a 1.75"/2.8 Elcan lens that was removed from one, also the autoexposure cone the lens was in. I think this lens would have been used in versions before the Mk. 10.
The lenses used on these and other UK-made aerial cameras, e.g., F134, F139, and various Agiflites are very poorly documented. Good luck in documenting them.
If you’re interested in Soviet aerial cameras and lenses, you might visit <a rel=’nofollow’ href=’http://www.photohistory.ru/Wood.html’ target=_blank>www.photohistory.ru/Wood.html</a> and look around.
Good luck!
Dan,
Thanks for the comments and the link 
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