Thank you Alan for the fantastic quick response to my email, 40 minutes from when I sent it to when I opened your email. The power of the Mailing Lists never ceases to amaze me. The listers are an incredible lot, somebody, womewhere knows the answer. Thank you for that info, that all ties in very nicely with everything I have here. Would'nt Joe be amazed, 97 years after he wrote that letter Pat > Cove is a village now incorporated > into Farnborough, Hants, adjacent to  > what used to be the Royal Aircraft Establishment - hence > perhaps the reference >  to the 'flying ground'. It is indeed about 14 miles from > Guildford. > Alan Leng