The RAF in Suffolk

John Cooper · Administrator

RE: MHAS Open Days & Events

John Cooper · Administrator

One of the Ipswich Pipers which sounded fantastic

tarkey · Senior Member

I have been asked on many occasions especially at open days what the shapes on the signal square meant. Obviously MH meant Martlesham Heath, and of course DX was Duxford.

for all the different type of codes etc see

http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/Signal%20Square.htm

Im probably teaching you how to suck eggs but if only one learns from this then its worth it

Tarkey

-- Edited by tarkey on Thursday 17th of September 2009 11:08:26 AM

tarkey · Senior Member

To follow on from John's picture of the pipers here is a You Tube

it also shows the Mustang and Dakota and also a good looking yank at the 44 second mark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh3Z_qPHBvA

Tarkey (AKA Good looking Yank)

John Cooper · Administrator

tarkey wrote:

I have been asked on many occasions especially at open days what the shapes on the signal square meant. Obviously MH meant Martlesham Heath, and of course DX was Duxford.

for all the different type of codes etc see

http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/Signal%20Square.htm

Im probably teaching you how to suck eggs but if only one learns from this then its worth it

Tarkey

......and still aircraft landed at the wrong airfield! There was an incident at MH once I think it might have been in Gordon Kinsey's book Martlesham Heath that I read that and at nearby Sutton Heath/Woodbridge some German kite [WWII] got lost over the North Sea, thought he was over Holland and put his A/C down at SH, quite an amusing incident the latter, again I think from Gordon's book Bawdsey/Sutton Heath but I do stand to be corrected on these titles it is all from memory.