To confuse things, there is both a FrIEston and FrEIston in Lincolnshire
The Gazetteer shows FrIEston as being a little north of Grantham
FrEIston an FrEIston Shore is the site of the WW1 airfield and range
There is a museum at Freiston
We'll Meet Again : WW2 Museum:
who are contactable by phone email and FB Messenger, you could ask then directly ? www.wmamuseum.co.uk/
Freiston Shore is now an RSPB Reserve
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kevin
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I found a photo in AIR 10/1698. Oddly it is spelt FRIESTON so was either named after a Mr Frieston or nothing to do with the gunnery school or misspelled from day 1 or Freiston has changed its spelling
It seems it was a deflection practice device to be used on the standard 25 yard range with the trainee having to follow a model and try to get a deflection shot at it. The photo is the model operators seat. I'll try and dig out the text but it is house cleaning day today!
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I converted the file to WORD and searched for both spellings of Frieston and did not find, then tried with just the first few letters but still nothing.
Searched on deflection, this is OCR by Acrobat
GR 4. Eondes Defiecti·o·n Trainer . .' Reflec·for "gun-siht ·an.a. spot-light
projector are fitted to a link trainer. A model n.ircro.ft is rnounteu
on n. tripoc.1 ·Support which cnn be wheeled across the floor by tho ... . instructor. Below. the o.ircruft o.nd coupled to it is:n. sheet of G
paper . VJith correct deflection' n.pproprinto to stated speed and
observed position of aircrnft, tho spot of licht will impinge upon thq crn.ph at n. position indicQting the correctness of aim. Optical
system Of reficctor sight must be .rnorlifiec1 to suit actual distCl!lCC Of to.rget, in order to eli:r.1inn.tc purallo.x error between imnge of gr'-.ticule and model n.ircrn.ft (S" T. c.. Paper No. 35 ) .
Yes, I think that it must have been the spelling which drew a blank on the forum SEARCH when I tried it.
I figured it was a 'synthetic trainer' and featured on some 25 yard small arms ranges but not its function.
Thanks for your responses. I suspect that it was only used pre-war. Looks to me as if an instructor sat in the chair and operated the controls to move an image on a screen which the student fired at?
Here is the rest of the manual referring to the Frieston Trainer. The manual itself, which covers all types of ranges was originally based on the 1929 version with various update up to 1942. As there are no update notes at the bottom I assume this is from the original 1929 version and judging by the model used probably based on an even earlier one. Having said that biplanes were still very common at the outbreak of WW2 so there was no reason to update them.
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