Originally Posted by
pulse1
Someone mentioned "Rushton" used by the Sea Vixen drone conversions. That call sign is still used by the Cobham Falcons out of Bournemouth.
Cobham = Flight Refuelling Ltd = Tarrant Rushton airfield (until they moved all their operation to Bournemouth in the mid/late '70s.)
The company has nothing to do with the town of that name where Chelsea (yeuk) have their training base but is named after Sir Alan Cobham who did so much to imbue 'air mindedness' in the country in the '30s with his 'National Aviation Day' tours.
They had previously operated various types from Bournemouth (eg Scimitars in the late '60s when I was attending the College of ATC on my initial assistants course).