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Summary of Events Compilation Officer: Fg. Off. D.A. Sawyer |
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| Royal Air Force, SYLT |
12th. |
(Contd.) |
ROUNDS FIRED: 3490 , STOPPAGE RATE: 1:1163
TOTAL ROUNDS FIRED: 19,146 , PROGRESSIVE STOPPAGE RATE: 1:1063
HIGHEST SCORE: Fg. Off. McCULLAGH 23 %, PROGRESSIVE SQN. AVERAGE: 6.7%
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13th. |
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All firing to-day was at 17,000' apart from 3 sorties at most when G.C.I. was
not working; a total of 31 Air to Air sorties were flown.
ROUNDS FIRED: 3923 , STOPPAGE RATE: 1:1308
TOTAL ROUNDS FIRED: 23,065 , PROGRESSIVE STOPPAGE RATE: 1:?098
HIGHEST SCORE: Flt. Lt. BARREY 27.5% , PROGRESSIVE SQN. AVERAGE: 6.3 % |
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14th |
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There was no flying to-day due to snow and later in the day, low cloud. The day was
devoted to screening of cine film and instructional films were shown in the Sqn. briefing room
for aircrew. These latter ?????????????????????????
ALERT, 'ROCKET FIRING' ?????????????????????? The groundcrew were
busy re-arming the aircraft to ????????????? |
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15th |
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Continuous snow cancelled all flying for the day, and a lecture was given by Fg. Off.
IANSON, one of the staff P.I.s on the history of the gyro gunsight. Following
this, the pilots helped the ground-crew complete the ??????ictions. The ??? ????
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16th |
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29 Air to Air missions were flown to-day. The ???????????????
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visual contact with the ???. Many sorties were abortive due to hazy conditions ???
pilots being unable to judge distances out correctly. Wg. Cdr. J.R. WEST, D.F.C.,
O.C. Flying Wing at R.A.F. Jever, visited Sylt this morning to check out the Squadron's
progress.
ROUNDS FIRED: ??? , STOPPAGE RATE: 1:1053
TOTAL ROUNDS FIRED: ???? PROGRESSIVE STOPPAGE RATE: 1:?????
HIGHEST SCORE: Fg. Off. ???? ??% PROGRESSIVE SQUADRON AVERAGE: 6.4 % |
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| Royal Air Force, SYLT |
23rd. |
(Contd.) |
the morning. The afternoon being occupied with assessing of cine films. |
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24th (SATURDAY) |
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To-day was to have been the last day of Air to Air firing at Sylt, but there was no flying for Hunters due to poor visibility and all pilots were occupied cleaning aircraft. |
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25th SUNDAY |
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All pilots worked this morning to finish cleaning the aircraft. |
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26th Monday |
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9 aircraft flew back to R.A.F. Jever and the pilots were: Flt. Lt. BARREY, D.F.C.,
A.F.C., D.F.M., Fg. Off. SHARMAN, Fg. Off. EDWARDS, Fg. Off. BYWATER, Flt. Lt.
LETHBRIDGE,
Fg. Off. BRUNGER, Fg. Off. HIRST, Fg. Off. MAILLARD, and Fg. Off.
SHORE. Fg. Off.
WHITTAKER flew back in a Vampire T II. Most of the Ground Equipment was packed to-day. |
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27th |
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Sqn. Ldr. ADAMSON and Fg. Off. McCULLAGH flew the remaining 2 Hunters back to
Jever, and
the packing of the Pack Wagons was com-pleted. Some Vampire T II flying
was done at
Jever. |
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28th |
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The road party left SYLT this morning under the control of Fg. Off. SANDERSON, and
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rail party, under Plt. Off. RASTALL, left at 06.00 hours. Fg. Off. YOUNG, after turning
over the block and hangar, left by road at 14.00 hours. Once again, some Vampire T II
flying took place at JEVER. |
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| JEVER |
29th |
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There was no flying to-day, as the airfield was being repaired and most of the squadron
were occupied unloading the pack wagons. The Squadron was stood down for Easter Grant. |
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FLYING HOURS STRENGTH
OPERATIONAL (DAY) 285.10 OFFICERS 20
OPERATIONAL (NIGHT) Nil S.N.C.O.'s 8
TRAINING TYPE 88.00 CORPORALS 13
INSTRUMENT FLYING (ACTUAL) 11.00 OTHER RANKS 48
INSTRUMENT FLYING (SIMULATED) 2.20
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PERSONNEL |
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13TH. |
March. |
Fg. Off. McCULLAGH left unit for R.A.F. Hospital WEGBERG |
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16th. |
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Fg. Off. McCULLAGH returned to unit from WEGBERG |
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21st. |
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Fg. Off. McCULLAGH left unit for C.M.E. |
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25th |
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Fg. Off. McCULLAGH returned to unit from C.M.E. |
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26th. |
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Flt. Lt. BARREY, D.F.C., A.F.C., D.F.M., Fg. Off. SHARMAN, Fg. Off. EDWARDS, Fg. Off.
BYWATER, Flt. Lt. LETHBRIDGE, Fg. Off. BRUNGER, Fg. Off. HIRST, Fg. Off. MAILLARD,
Fg. Off. SHORE flew back to JEVER in HUNTERS. Fg. Off. WHITTAKER flew back in T XI. |
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27th |
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Sqn. Ldr. ADAMSON and Fg. Off. McCULLAGH flew back in HUNTERS. |
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28th. |
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Fg. Off.'s. SANDERSON, SAWYER, TODMAN, BARROW and YOUNG returned to JEVER by road.
Fg. Off. RILEY and Plt. Off. RASTALL returned by rail. Flt. Lt. WESTON returned
from I.R.E. course at C.F.E. WEST RAYNHAM. |
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OPERATIONAL
March was a good flying month with generally good weather and only 6 days were
completely
unfit for flying. The Squadron has been at SYLT for all but 4 days of this
month, and a
fairly successful detachment was the result. A total of 38,694 rounds
were fired, with
41 stoppages, the majority of which were electrical, giving an overall
stoppage rate
of 1:914. 313 effective sorties high level, giving a total number of hours of 266 hrs. |
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