Flight through Time - Programme 2 - your responses...

Peter Moore - Nov '06
Hello
I found the interviews with the airmen stationed in Ireland of tremendous interest.

My interest is of particular is that of Ballyhalbert as our squadron 504 were based there. Our 504 (County of Nottingham)Squadron Association hold some records of their stay including Cecil Austins time on the station.

Secretary 504 Squadron Association

Ellen Elder - April 04:
Apropos Shorts making motor cars, I was interested to read recently that Harland & Wolff built aeroplanes at the Aldergrove aerodrome during the lst world war. One which was test-flown by the American test pilot C.B. Prodger was at the time one of the largest ever built. It could carry enough fuel to keep it going for 15 hours at a stretch and had a speed of 100 mph. The span of the wings was 126 feet and the plane was originally intended to take part in the bombing of Berlin but as it was now December 1918, it was a little late. It was decided to utilise the plane in connection with the Indian mail service. The article goes on to say that "One can easily conceive of the time when the aeroplane will be a powerful rival to the railway train and the motor car in the conveyance of passengers.....during the past 18months and in adapting their great resources to the requirements of this industry, Messrs Harland & Wolff have proved that the initiative and enterprise which ha!
ve won worldwide renown for their Queen's Island works can ensure an equal measure of success when directed into new channels of activity".

Charles Singer R206461 RCAF - March 04
The more I look the more I see about 422 Sqdrn from Lake Erne in Castle
Archdale. My last flight from that base was August 1944. Can not seem to get enough of those stories?
Keep up the good work.