Imperial War Museum (IWM)

[Carnaby]

Me neither, though folding wing aircraft wouldn't need much - but they'd need a landing strip.

[P Bellamy]

I don't know about the rest of them, but the captions to the lovely colour Thor photo's are good for a chuckle or two.

If the caption on THIS one is to be believed, the chap standing to the left of the launcher is about to get one heck of a shock...
On the other hand, it IS a great image of LOX boiling off in the catch pit.

[PETERTHEEATER]

Oh dear! Such a lot to look at and some of it I paid hard dosh for ten years ago! Most welcome 'though except it will cause yet another digression from other research.

[Denis]

I have trouble with this one.
http://beta.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ject/205200021
It describes the famous S-sugar at Hunsdon refueling after its 100th op, I do know that it landed there short of fuel, but the bowser seems wrong for Hunsdon, and why the bomb trolley underneath?

[PETERTHEEATER]

It certainly is unlikely to be Hunsdon. With the civilian photographer on the right it looks like a publicity photo session to promote the 100th mission.

[Denis]

Thanks Peter,that really does make sense. Shame though, as I really wanted it to be a post op pic and not a pre op!

[Carnaby]

It certainly is unlikely to be Hunsdon.

I've a feeling a few photos I've looked at are incorrectly captioned. LIke the HMS Ariel one above. There were a few locations for this apart from Warrington / Culcheth - many had hangars and runways.

[PETERTHEEATER]

Thanks Peter,that really does make sense. Shame though, as I really wanted it to be a post op pic and not a pre op!

No, what I meant was it is a post-op PR picture so what was the home base from which the sortie was flown?

[PETERTHEEATER]

[QUOTE=Carnaby;88035]

It certainly is unlikely to be Hunsdon. /QUOTE]
I've a feeling a few photos I've looked at are incorrectly captioned. LIke the HMS Ariel one above. There were a few locations for this apart from Warrington / Culcheth - many had hangars and runways.

During a personal visit some years to the IWM Photographic Archive I identified a number of incorrectly captioned photographs (location) because I was 100% certain of the actual location. I informed the staff and they accepted my comments gratefully and made the changes. Now that may of the photos in the collection are digitised and viewable on-line it will be easy to feed back errors but to be credible one must be able to provide evidence.

[ted angus]

I have trouble with this one.
http://beta.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ject/205200021
It describes the famous S-sugar at Hunsdon refueling after its 100th op, I do know that it landed there short of fuel, but the bowser seems wrong for Hunsdon, and why the bomb trolley underneath?

The bowser has B/5 on the back at that time Hunsdon was fighter command ? but not B/5 ??