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Forum: Military Aviation
16th Sep 2009, 08:58
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,851,189
Posted By Mike Read

In the 70's BEA had a crew bus driver in Berlin...

In the 70's BEA had a crew bus driver in Berlin who had been in the German army in N. Africa. He helped a wounded British soldier and took a set of his dogtags. Long after the war his wife found...
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Jul 2009, 14:19
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,851,189
Posted By Mike Read

Google Earth puts him somewhere in Oman

Google Earth puts him somewhere in Oman
Forum: Military Aviation
29th Mar 2009, 09:06
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,851,189
Posted By Mike Read

I remember walking in the Tiergarten in Berlin...

I remember walking in the Tiergarten in Berlin with my ex Bomber Command captain one day in the early 70's. He said that he often did this when in the city and tried to visualise the place where he...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Mar 2009, 17:15
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,851,189
Posted By Mike Read

Toy monkey ?? In 1956 the Comm Flight at...

Toy monkey ??

In 1956 the Comm Flight at Nicosia had a pet monkey which lived in their office. During the Suez period an RAF Regiment squadron with their Bofors guns was deployed to the airfield...
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Feb 2009, 16:05
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,851,189
Posted By Mike Read

Re flying into cables, when stationed at Tangmere...

Re flying into cables, when stationed at Tangmere in the mid fifties the Station Commander, Gp Capt Jonny Kent regaled us with stories of doing that. He was not impressed, having been swung round a...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Oct 2008, 20:25
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,851,189
Posted By Mike Read

For years anybody going through 229 OCU at...

For years anybody going through 229 OCU at Chivenor in the fifties would have watched "Journey Together" when the weather precluded flying. Not too relevent for embryo DFGA chaps but was really all...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Aug 2008, 18:43
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,851,189
Posted By Mike Read

My recollection of Harvards at Ternhill in 1951...

My recollection of Harvards at Ternhill in 1951 was that unrated students could fly solo provided the cloudbase was 800 ft minimum and visibility 500 yds but white rated could fly with 500 ft but...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Aug 2008, 18:27
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,851,189
Posted By Mike Read

Just read an interesting book, "Flights into the...

Just read an interesting book, "Flights into the Night" by L Anthony Leicester in which he relates his joining the RAF for pilot training in 1942, sent to Canada, first op in a Wellington as captain...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Jul 2008, 08:05
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,851,189
Posted By Mike Read

I remember my instructor telling me, in 1950 when...

I remember my instructor telling me, in 1950 when he was quite old (about 30 perhaps) to "tickle Mary Pickford for forty glorious hours". Trim set for take off, throttle friction nut tight, mixture...
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