02/09/2010. Added  3 more photos and info to Orkney Misc Aviation Relics page, also photo of Sub/Lt De A Hewetsons headstone to Corsair on Orkney High Ground Aircraft page. Added info on up and coming event this Sunday 5 Sept at Ness Battery, Stromness, to ARGOS News page.

30/08/2010. Updated and added link regarding first plane to land on Shetland to Early Aviation in Shetland page. 

25/08/2010  Added new photos to Hatston section of Orkney Airfields, Tarpon (Avenger) FN899 in Orkney Underwater sites, and Swordfish L2794 at Quendale Bay,Shetland Underwater Sites page. 

24/08/2010  Added F4F-4 Wildcat to Orkney Land Crashes page.  Also added Thurs 19 Ag clipping to ARGOS Media page, and more pics to Seafires in Orkney Projects.

16/08/2010  Updated Fair Isle Air Defences page. More pics added to Heinkel on Fair Isle Projects page.

15/08/2010.  Added photos on Seafire display from todays Orkney Vintage Club show to Seafires MB362 & MB369 in Orkney Projects page. 

14/08/2010 Two new photos added to Seafire MB362 & MB369 page of the area of the two crash sites. New page also added today `Fair Isle Air Defences` with details on radar installations, anti-aircraft batteries and air attacks by the luftwaffe on the lighthouse. ARGOS News page updated.

13/08/2010  Added new aerial photos taken by Kevin Heath from Andrew Brown`s aircraft in August 2010 to Orkney Airfields, Orkney AA Batteries and Oxford BG555 pages. Also photo of another mystery aircraft wheel from Stromness in Orkney Misc Aviation Relics.   

12/08/2010. Updated News Page with reference to civil airliner crash at Sumburgh in 1979.

07/08/2010 new page Spitfire BL253  Kirkwall Bay added to Orkney Projects.

06/08/2010. Added link to Fair Isle Incident page all about the Heinkel crash there in January 1941. See Fair Isle Projects page. 

05/08/2010.  Details of the Autumn issue of `The Argonaut` magazine added to our Group Magazine page,due out early September.  Also updated the `Mystery of Wellesley K7734` in Orkney Projects.

31/07/2010. Added more photos and info to Ju88 at Flotterston,Sandwick, Orkney,in Orkney Projects Land Sites page. Also added a reputed Walrus to the Orkney Land Crash sites page. Added Walrus L2316 to Fair Isle Projects page.  Plus a photo of crash area of B-24 at Walliwall to Orkney Land Crash sites page.

29/07/2010.  Updated ARGOS News page.  Added article on the weekend Seafire dig  in `ORKNEY TODAY`  newspaper to ARGOS Media page.

27/07/2010. Some photos & details of finds at the dig added to the Evie Seafire page.Also added Radio Orkney interview with ARGOS member William Shearer to same page. 

07/07/2010 Added photos of Cmdr Dunning memorial stone to Aviation Memorials & Monuments page. Also news clipping on a more unusual find on Eday added to ARGOS Media page,sub menu of ARGOS News page.

05/07/2010. Added more pics to Orkney AA batteries page, and info on Graemsay battery. 

01/07/2010. Updated ARGOS News and Videos Pages with info on a Seaplane in Orkney. 

25/06/2010.  Orkney Misc Aviation Relics page updated adding help requests for various mystery items located around farms.

24/06/2010. Added more photos to Orkney Aviation Misc Relics page. Added Ness & Links Batteries and photos to Orkney AA Batteries page.

22/06/2010. More photos added to Warwick BV411 page and Civil Aviation page in Shetland Projects.  Photos added to Civil Aviation page in Orkney Projects. Copyright notice added to all pages. 2 new photos added to F4F-4s off Orkney in Orkney Underwater Sites page. More photos added to RAF Skeabrae and HMS Tern in Orkney Airfields page.

20/06/2010.  Updated Orkney Misc Aviation Relics page. All latest updates at top of page.

19/06/2010. Added new account on two F4F-4s (Wildcats) of the US Navy that collided off Orkney to Orkney Underwater Projects page. Added more recent discoveries to Orkney Misc Aviation Relics pages.  More info added to Barracuda DP983 in Underwater Sites page plus News clippings added to Buccaneer & Wellesley pages in Orkney Projects. News Page has also been updated.

17/06/2010. Updated Seafires at Woodwick page in Orkney Projects. Also added Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter account to Orkney Underwater Sites page.Updated Group Magazine page. Mosquito DD618 added to Shetland Underwater Sites on the Shetland Projects page.

11/06/2010.  Account on Tiger Moth on Sanday Isle added to Orkney Land Crash sites. More pics added to Orkney Misc Aviation Relics page. New subpage on a Falconette Target Drone from a beach in S.Ronaldsay in Orkney Projects Page. New photo added of pilot to Shapinsay Spitfire BL686 on Orkney Land Crash Sites page. Photo also of Hurricane at Sumburgh to Shetland Airfields page. 

08/06/2010  Supermarine Sea Otter account added to Orkney Underwater Projects page. Also added account of Gloster Gladiator to Shetland Land Crashes page.

06/06/2010  Great aerial footage of the Spitfire over Orkney by  pilot and ARGOS member Andrew Brown added to the Videos Page. Two demolition photos added to the Skeabrae section of the Orkney Airfields page. Also added account on Spitfire BL418 at Basta Voe, Yell, to Shetland Projects page. 

05/06/2010.  Added recent Spitfire & other aircraft display photos to ARGOS News page also two more movie clips added to Video Page of the Pitts Special and SE5-A taken during this weeks air display over Kirkwall. A seperate page has also been added for new pics from this air display.

04/06/2010. Added Spitfire over Kirkwall Harbour to Videos Page.

03/06/2010. Latest edition of  `The Argonaut` contents added to Group Magazine page. Added 3 new site visit photos to Caldale Airships page. More names added to Orkney Roll of Honour page. 

30/05/2010  The story of the loss of the airships SSP 2 and SSP 4 added to the Caldale Station and Airships page

11/05/2010. Added more great airship photos from the Jim Eunson Collection to our Caldale Station & Airship page in Orkney Projects.

09/05/2010.  New page added Caladale Camp and Airships to Orkney Projects page.

07/05/2010.  The Spitfire on Shapinsay BL686 has been added to the Orkney Land Crash Sites page in Orkney Projects.

06/05/2010.  F-14 Tomcat added to Orkney Underwater Crash sites in Orkney Projects page, Also books page updated with additions. 

05/05/2010. Warwick BV411 now added to Shetland Projects page. Also New aircraft SBD-5 Dauntless added to Orkney Land Crash Projects page. Plus 2 short films on the latter type on the Videos Page.  04/05/2010. Three new photos added,  1 of concrete anchor that was originally at the entrance to Twatt airfield, but now restored in Lyness Museum,Hoy, added to Orkney Airfields page, and 2 more photos of the Vickers Warwick airborne lifeboat, also in Lyness, added to account on Warwick BV417 in the Orkney Projects page. 

29/04/2010. New movie added to Video Page a simulated attack by Ju88s on Scapa Flow, some great computer graphics, note the pic of the Flotterston Ju88 that was shot down on Christmas Day 1940 at the end of the film.  

27/04/2010  Three more photos added to the Liberator FL949 in Orkney High Ground sites, Orkney Projects page. New page SB-17 Fortress off Shetland added to Shetland Projects.

21/04/2010  Hurricanes P3255 & V7069 added to Shetland Underwater sites, Shetland Projects page.    

20/04/2010  Re-Worked and added more missing names to Orkney Roll of Honour page.Buccaneer XW540 page updated. Plus more unit bades added to aircraft both Orkney and Shetland.

18/04/2010. A short film on 12 Squadron Buccaneers added to the Video Page. Also more photos added to Buccaneer account on Orkney Underwater Sites page.

17/04/2010. Added new pages `The mystery of Wellesley K7734` and Buccaneer XW540 to Orkney Projects page. Update on Twatt airfield in Orkney Airfields.    

16/04/2010. New page added for Civil Aviation in Orkney & Shetland in the Orkney Projects and Shetland Projects Pages. Also added another video on airfield safety in WW2 called `No Alibi` to the Videos Page. A little more info and another photo added to Skua L2883 account in Orkney Underwater Sites on Orkney Projects page. 

12/04/2010. Added  SAAB civil aircraft landing at Sumburgh to Videos Page.

09/04/2010. Added video of an F-14 Jet which ran off the edge of a USN aircraft carrier off Orkney in 1976, to Videos Page.

08/04/2010. Account on Whitley Z9382 added to Shetland Land Crash projects page, with a small movie on the search for the aircraft on Foula added to our Videos Page.  

06/04/2010. New account of Swordfish W5889 added to Orkney Underwater Sites  page, location of Spitfire in Deerness added to Orkney Land Projects page.

01/04/2010. Added account on Spitfire MB765 at Deerness,to Orkney Land Sites Projects.

30/03/2010. Added `Shetland News` item to ARGOS Media page.

29/03/2010. Added `Shetland Times` item and links to ARGOS Media page. ALSO added a movie of an F-18 Hornet crash (Not a real one) in the Shetlands to the Videos page. 

22/03/2010. Added movie clip on the Vickers Wellesley bomber one of which was lost off Orkney,to the Videos page.

18/03/2010. Added photo and info to Orkney Unidentified Parts page, and aerial photo to Scatsta on Shetlands Airfields page. ALSO Added new page on Aviation Books in Orkney and Shetland.

13/03/10  Added photo of 602 squadron at Sumburgh to Shetland Airfields page.

01/03/2010. Updated magazine page with latest issue.

23/02/2010.  Some rare footage of Spitfires of 331 & 332 Norwegian squadrons at RAF Skeabrae was found on You Tube, this has been added to the Videos page.

08/02/2010. Added `The Orcadian` newpaper article on Woodwick Range Seafires to ARGOS Media page.

28/01/2010. Updated ARGOS NEWS page and added photo of 226 AA Battery men to Orkney Anti Aircraft Batteries page. Also photo of airborne lifeboat to Warwick BV417 page in Orkney Projects. Group Magazine page also added. 

11/01/2010. Added film footage of an aircraft dive in Scapa Flow believed to be that of Vickers Warwick BV417 to videos page.

07/01/2010.  Added  snippet on `The Argonaut` mag to our ARGOS Media page.

01/01/2010.  Added  WW2 training film `IN  THE DRINK` about what a bomber crew does during a ditching at sea to the Video`s page.   

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31/12/2009.  Two photos added to memorials page of the memorial at former RAF Sullom Voe,Shetland. Also updated ARGOS News page and Added pics of navigators brother from B-24 at Walliwall in Orkney Land crashes page.

15/12/2009.  News reel  added to videos on Cmdr Edwin Dunnings aircraft carrier landing trials in August 1917.

06/12/2009 . The story of the TAG from Avenger FN899 added. Also page added for The Black Building, obviously the chances of saving the building have passed but the opportunity to preserve history by way of photos and memories can live on so if anyone wishes to contribute photos we would be happy to put them on here.  

06/12/2009. Added new ARGOS media page and updated  ARGOS News page. Also more information on the Blackburn Skua lost in the sea off Orkney in April 1944 in Orkney Underwater Sites page.

16/11/2009. New photos added to Shetland Projects page in Shetland Unidentified relics page

12/11/2009.  New photo added to Skelday Hill Spitfire in Orkney Land Crashes page, also updated ARGOS News page.  Plus another photo added to the Orkney Airfields Twatt section. 

20/10/09 Added Spitfire pic on Fair Isle.

19/10/2009. Fair Isle page added with account & photos of  crashed Heinkel at Vaasetter. and account of Spitfire prang. 

15/10/2009.  Added 771 Sq Swordfish to Orkney Land Crash sites page.

13/10/2009. Added photo of Peedie Sea to Hurricane account on Orkney Inland Water crash sites page. 

5/10/2009. New page made for Orkney & Shetland Memorials & Monuments. 

1/10/2009. Added new pic of Skeabrae Control tower to Orkney Airfields page, and updated Hatston memorial info on same page.

30/9/2009. Updated info on prop recovered in 1980s from Baltasound,Shetland, on the Shetland Unidentified Aircraft page.

28/9/2009. Added more photos & info to Orkney AA Batteries, Flotta`s secret weapon the Z Guns.   

21/9/2009 Some great photos taken from the air on Orkney High Ground sites and Orkney Inland underwater sites by Andrew Brown

4/9/2009. Added account on Ju-88 at Flotterson,Sanwick, to Orkney Land Crashes page.

22/8/2009 News page updated and photo added to Seafire at Lyde in Orkney Land Crash sites page.

10/8/2009. Added another short film to Videos, `A Fighter has crashed` .

9/8/2009. New video added, Spitfire camera gun training film.

8/8/2009 New page added with more photos to Orkney Projects for Miles Martinet on Rousay. Also added Dominie NR795 to Orkney Land Crash Sites and a photo of pilot of Hudson N7310 on Hoy to Orkney High Ground Crash Sites page.

3/8/2009 More photos added to Anti Aircraft Batteries page,Orkney Projects.

30/7/2009 Added Martlets FN284 & FN288 in Finstown & Harray to Orkney Land Sites page.

27/7/2009 Added CWGC Headstone photos to various aircraft accounts inc, Lt Bush,Sea Hurricane (Orkney Inland water ) Nias & Fletcher to Skua,(Orkney Land sites) and Abbott & Boar, Martinet on Rousay (Orkney Land sites). More Skeabrae Cinema photos added to (Orkney Airfields) page (thanks Magnus) :o) .  

26/7/2009 Photo added to at B-24 Walliwall in Orkney Land Crash sites page. 

26/7/2009 Seafire LR856 which crashed at Lyde,added to Orkney Land Crash sites page. 

25/7/2009 New page added to Orkney Projects for Seafires MB362 & MB369 which collided over Evie.

23/7/2009 New page added to Orkney Projects for Orkney Unidentified aircraft relics,also another photo to Mystery Aircraft in Scapa. 

21/7/2009  Blenheim T1949 account added to Shetland Underwater sites.

20/7/2009 New page added Shetland Roll of Honour air losses around the Isles in WW2.

18/7/2009 New page added - Orkney Roll of Honour names,dates etc of all airmen who were lost in flying accidents on Orkney in WW1 & WW2.  Shetland Roll to follow soon. 

16/7/2009 Photo of  Sgt Roberts headstone added to Warwick BV520 in Shetland Underwater page. Also photo of  prop found at Baltasound added to Shetland Unidentified relics page and Barracuda DP927 added to Shetland Underwater sites in Shetland Projects,Plus an aerial pic of Samphrey to Gladiator in Shetland Land Sites and  Squadron/Unit badges to various aircraft.

14/7/2009 Added photo of general crash area of Mosquito HR133 off Stronsay to Orkney Underwater sites page.

10/7/2009 Based on info left in our guestbook on the prop` from Scalloway harbour,new info and pic added to the Shetland Projects Unidentified Relics page.

9/7/2009 Two more photos added to Wildcat JV751 on the Orkney Projects Underwater Aircraft Sites.

 9/7/2009 Added Carness Battery photos to Orkney Anti Aircraft Batteries page. Also a photo of an unidentified propeller found in a Shetland harbour in the 1980s added to the Shetland Unidentified relics page. Can you help? 

8/7/2009  New photos & info added to Liberator FL949 in Orkney High Ground Wrecks page,also new photos in Martinet account on Orkney Land Crash sites, and Spitfire X4108 at Rendal in Orkney Projects page.  

2/7/2009  Exciting news about the Isbister Martinet added to Orkney Inland water sites.

1/7/2009  Houton Skua and Rousay Martinet added to Orkney land project page

1/7/2009 Page for Airspeed Oxford BG555 added with new photo's from Trevor Helm, the son of  F/L William Oakley Helm.

23/6/2009 Some great photos of Orkney airfields and AA sites added by Andrew Brown. thank you Andrew, ARGO&S looks forward to working with you in the future :o)

 Andrews Pride and Joy

28/05/2009 A new ''Membership'' page added

27/05/2009. Added  photos to Corsair JT461 on Orkney High Ground page and to Gladiator on Samphray on Shetland Land Crashes page.

22/05/2009. More photos & info added to Shetland Early Aviation page,including an epic flight by the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne in their Sirius seaplane.

21/05/2009 Added Shetland Early Aviation page. 

20/05/2009 Added Sopwith Camel at Clestrain to Orkney Early Aviation page.

19/05/2009 Added  brief account on B-24 Liberator at Walliwall to Orkney Land crashes page.  Also some great aerial photos by Neil Thain of Kirkwall Airport, to Orkney Airfields, Orkney Early Aviation and Orkney Anti Aircraft pages.   

17/05/2009 Some good Black Building news ! see save the Black Building page

17/05/2009 We have started a page on early Orkney aviation history. Need information on early Shetland avitaion history.

15/05/2009 Added footage of the Fairey Swordfish to the Video page, used extensively in training & operations from both Hatston & Twatt. 

14/05/2009  Photos of Yesnaby anti-aircraft battery site added. Also Saro London L7042 addred to Shetland Underwater sites.

10/05/2009  Added  Halifax R9438  Shetland High Ground aircraft.  Also Gladiator N5716 on Unst to Shetland Land sites with ref to Gladiator on Samphray Island also.

 

 

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