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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Apr 2024, 11:05
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

I happened to see 'Mosquito Squadron' over the...

I happened to see 'Mosquito Squadron' over the weekend. I'd never watched the whole film before for various reasons (eg it was rubbish) however on this occasion, I noticed that when they were...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Apr 2024, 16:07
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

Filming for 633 Sqdn including the Mosquito crash...

Filming for 633 Sqdn including the Mosquito crash scene took place in July/Aug 1963 and the film was released in Jun 1964.
Along with a schoolmate, Mike (both of us being members of 2204 [Chesham]...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
14th Mar 2024, 09:14
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

I had two WO (ATC) on my squadron (2204 Chesham...

I had two WO (ATC) on my squadron (2204 Chesham Sqdn) and both worked for Shorts at Bovingdon unitl it closed.
Didn't one of the Biafran Ansons have to drop in at Blackbushe on the way south?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
12th Mar 2024, 11:22
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

Note the white painted tops to the parked Ansons...

Note the white painted tops to the parked Ansons in the right background - very un WW2 like!
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Mar 2024, 13:30
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

There are some references to gliding at Bovingdon...

There are some references to gliding at Bovingdon in 'Air Cadet gliding pix in the ''80s which I won't duplicate here.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
31st Jan 2024, 10:09
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

On that particular day, having left school early...

On that particular day, having left school early at about 3 pm, I had gotten to Bovingdon using the 362 bus which stopped near my school (my school being directly opposite John Young's house) and...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Jan 2024, 14:38
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

Seconds 48 to 55; I took off from that almost...

Seconds 48 to 55; I took off from that almost straight bit of taxiway for the first ever glider launch from Bovingdon on 21 Jun 1965 at about 6 pm with instructor Paul Duncombe in the back seat. The...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
18th Jan 2024, 23:32
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

Sorry yes; 336 was Chesham to Watford, Hemel was...

Sorry yes; 336 was Chesham to Watford, Hemel was the 316.
Something wrong with the date of the 316 finishing. I didn't get a car until '68 and when gliding from Bovingdon from '65 to '67 I'd used...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
18th Jan 2024, 12:21
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

There is to ths day sufficient flat land to...

There is to ths day sufficient flat land to provide for an extension of the runway possibly to the 'standard' 6,000ft.
The 336 bus from Chesham to Hemel Hempstead always turned off the main Chesham...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
2nd Oct 2023, 16:46
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum/buckinghams...

www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum/buckinghamshire-memorials/16967-ley-hill-chesham-wooden-v1-mock-up
My sister used to live next door to the present school and just opposite Keith Fordyce's...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Sep 2023, 09:51
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

April 1953, I was four and a half years old. A...

April 1953, I was four and a half years old.
A 'young lady' was required for a 'television and electrical showroom' by D.L. Chittenden; I don't know what school leaving age was in 1953; it could...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
20th Sep 2023, 18:26
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

A clandestine radio station in Bovingdon would...

A clandestine radio station in Bovingdon would have had little traffic to be listened to, the closest airfields in Sep 1939 were :
RAF Halton
Denham
Booker.
Leavesden wasn't built until 1940;...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
20th Sep 2023, 11:05
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

Having racked my brains, I think it was a company...

Having racked my brains, I think it was a company called 'Dewhurst' who took over the Brazils factory; they still produced pork products but it never seemed as good.
Last time I drove through Old...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Sep 2023, 05:04
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

GOYA did employ people like that; I knew one who...

GOYA did employ people like that; I knew one who worked there in about 1963, after he had been made redundant from Brazils, a meat company which produced sausages and meat pies in Amersham. In fact...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th Aug 2023, 11:37
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

Tudor? Got annular radiatiors mind you the fin...

Tudor? Got annular radiatiors mind you the fin gives it away too!
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th Aug 2023, 09:27
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

Back in the 70s or 80s, a Cessna 172 would...

Back in the 70s or 80s, a Cessna 172 would operate in/out of Bovingdon, landing on runway 02/20 and taxying through those gates (which of course weren't there at the time) across the main road to...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Jul 2023, 22:27
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

Size wise the B19 was roughly midway between a...

Size wise the B19 was roughly midway between a B29 and a B36 but although it was long range (5200sm) the cruisng speed was only 135 mph.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Jul 2023, 13:08
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

Douglas XB 19 in its later form with Allison...

Douglas XB 19 in its later form with Allison engines and 4 bladed props.
Only one built, ff 1941 and scrapped in 1949.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
1st Jul 2023, 14:11
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

During my ATCO training at Bournemouth in 1974, a...

During my ATCO training at Bournemouth in 1974, a CAA Dove would fly down from Stansted on a monday and return on a friday to do 'live' traffic training where we were split into groups of 3, one flew...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
1st Jul 2023, 08:43
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

Ref VP956; I flew in VP958 from Bovingdon on 13...

Ref VP956; I flew in VP958 from Bovingdon on 13 Jul '65 whilst we were doing evening gliding. The SDO decided to do a couple of circuits for currency and invited the cadets along too.
Other notable...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th May 2023, 12:19
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

In 1954, they could have moved to Blackbushe;...

In 1954, they could have moved to Blackbushe; Stansted was just about to have major works starting and Gatwick was still waiting for its expansion to be started (at that time, the closure of...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th May 2023, 06:37
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

According to John Young's journal there was also...

According to John Young's journal there was also a Piper L4 Cub which was often used to fly over to Chesham (my home town) for short shopping trips, landing in ''Top Park' which is an area to the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
6th Feb 2023, 09:14
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

I know there are developments at Bovingdon; the...

I know there are developments at Bovingdon; the 'Dancing on Ice' studio has been operating for some years and now I understand ITV have applied to build more studios on parts of the main runway, the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
7th Jan 2023, 13:23
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

Still mulling over the photo of Bourne End you...

Still mulling over the photo of Bourne End you sent me.
I can just about make out Bourne End Lane on the photo but I know the house belonging to my relatives was demolished in the mid '60s and the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Jan 2023, 13:24
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

In the first photo, the red dot is about 200 yds...

In the first photo, the red dot is about 200 yds away from the cottage where my aunt and uncle lived, just west of what used to be the A41; my uncle worked in the sawmill between Bourne End and the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Dec 2022, 19:58
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

I remember it when it was published in the 'Bucks...

I remember it when it was published in the 'Bucks Examiner' our local paper.
(I've had 2 'Good Shows' but neither of them at Bovingdon.)
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Dec 2022, 23:22
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

'The woods at Hockeridge' were right next to...

'The woods at Hockeridge' were right next to Ashlyns School and were the place where my grandfather was killed on his pushbike one day in 1944 by a motorcycle stolen from some Canadians; that was the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Dec 2022, 21:29
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

In the photo, I can make out the home where my...

In the photo, I can make out the home where my grandmother stayed during her last years about 1969 to 1980.; at centre, just off Northchurch High Street is what looks like a pair of poplar trees and...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
9th Dec 2022, 17:40
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

Great, thanks Dave; the site map is page 6. I...

Great, thanks Dave; the site map is page 6.
I reckon the 'domestic site' where we had lunch once or twice was Site 11.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
9th Dec 2022, 17:16
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

Site plan and other details:- ...

Site plan and other details:-
www.areabasedpolicies_f03_bovingdon (www.areabasedpolicies._f03_bovingdon)(1).pdf
Sorry can't get the link to work; can anyone else do it? I'm not very good at this...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
9th Dec 2022, 16:42
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

Aircraft in residence on 8 Jan 1966 (Recorded by...

Aircraft in residence on 8 Jan 1966 (Recorded by Graham Luxton of ARG):-
Anson:PH815, PH858, TX154, TX229, TX230, VL337, VM332, VM351, VM394, VV297, VV958
Pembroke: WV701, WV753, WV754, XK884,...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
8th Dec 2022, 10:29
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

I think the civil terminal was the 3 (or 4)...

I think the civil terminal was the 3 (or 4) buildings on the left as you went in the main gate; in the '60s the one fronting the apron was the Met Office and next to that was one with a 'check in'...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
8th Dec 2022, 06:05
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

I don't know which canteen they were referring...

I don't know which canteen they were referring to.
The canteen operated latterly by Shorts was in the area where the prison is now situated, but there was another one on the RAF domestic site about...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
7th Dec 2022, 10:46
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

I remember the traffic lights between Whelpley...

I remember the traffic lights between Whelpley Hill and Bovingdon Village as always being there even in the early/mid '50s; they were on the main Chesham to Hemel road very close to the 02 threshold....
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th Dec 2022, 16:39
Replies: 698
Views: 302,704
Posted By chevvron

April 1st 1956 sounds reasonable. So I wonder why...

April 1st 1956 sounds reasonable. So I wonder why the SATCO transferred from Bovingdon (an MTCA airfield) to Farnborough (an MoS airfield) in 1954.
The change of operator was I suppose logical;...
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