Which Halifax airfield?

...is this?

They are using Runway 26, then fly over East Moor. Thought it might be Linton, but runways are wrong.

One post says Elvington - runway OK, but tower doesn't look right.

Then again it could be more than one airfield.

Graham

If the commentary is to be believed only airfields that close to Eastmoor would be Linton on Ouse and Tholthorpe and possibly those in the Dishforth area. Hangars looked wrong for Linton, Topcliffe and Dishforth and its too flat for others such as Skipton on Swale so I'd go for Tholthorpe! Its a brilliant clip....

I would say Elvington, based on the aircraft we saw briefly with a full squadron code. The squadron identifier was L8 which was 347 at Elvington.

The view out of the window at approx 5.41 looks a bit like the emergency field at Carnaby. The bearing of 115 degrees and 38 miles To Bridlington would put him near Ampleforth......

I think there are a few red herrings in there too ? Look at the Halifax shown taxying at 4:12 and then taking off at 5:00 and its flypast . It has no mid upper turret and an extended bomb bay very similar to a late Mark 7 , 8 or 9 ? For some reason I was thinking Tarrant Rushton ? There is some FAF footage at Elvington in there and it appears in a video film I bought from YAM at Elvington which was commercially available and probably still is but now on DVD , the cover photograph is a FAF Halifax over the Eiffel Tower .

Have another listen because i'm sure at 4.08; he states that there are

'other aircraft in the RUFFORD circuit'

A few thoughts

Yes, it is a complete mismatch, events in order are:

Take off on rwy 026 from 'Stopgap'

We get 'airfields in the circuit at Rufforth' on take off (4.07)

Is there a 'J' hangar in background (4.26 and 5.02)?

Heads north at 5.29

Then we see Carnaby - three miles from Bridlington (5.40)

At 5.50 set course for Bridlington (38 miles 115 degrees), puts them a few miles north of Helmsley

Interesting airfield described as East Moor at 6.10. Not entirely convinced. I think the aircraft is heading south, in which case there are dispersals to the left where the tech site should be. Could be wrong.

At 6.23 the controller says something about 123.54. That sounds like a 'modern' VHF airband frequency. I may be totally wrong, but thought WWII bombers used HF for communications. (Fighter Command definitely used VHF, as did 617 on the Dams Raid I believe.)

Graham

At 3:24 it actually shows a Lancaster's flight engineers panel. It's a small clip from one of the Jack Currie docs of the 1980s. Likewise at 6:07 is another clip from Currie's docs (it's PA474).

Good little film though.

Chris