Originally Posted by
pulse1
chevvron,
Not really on thread but I thought that the Scimitars at Bournemouth were operated by Airworks who provided the same Fleet Requirements Unit for the Navy as Cobham do now, especially on Thursdays. They also operated Canberras and Hunters but I can't remember what their call sign was although I used to share the same bit of sky. Throughout the 60's Flight Refuelling only operated from Tarrant Rushton, mainly on drone development using Meteors and then the Vixen.
I think you're correct. Even as I pressed 'Submit' I had my doubts.
FR moved to Bournemouth en-masse after 1974 because Tarrant Rushton used 122.5 in '74/'75 and when I started at Farnborough this was also Farnborough VHF Approach frequency, shared with Tarrant, Andover, Weston Super Mare and Bitteswell. Course it became Farnborough Tower in '75ish when we got 125.250 for Approach/LARS, the recievers were in a different place so we didn't get interference from the other stations.