Originally Posted by
Claudine
Hi All,
I really enjoyed reading this thread and thanks in particular to Warmtoast for the newspaper cutting which I'd never seen before.
It was my father, Flt/Lt Reginald Wareham, at the controls of the Vulcan and Tom Frost was the co-pilot.
My father sadly died in October 2006.
hi claudine,
I Googled your dad's name and came across this site.
l desperately wanted to be a fighter pilot, but was turned down. Not knowing what to do l joined the meteorological office, and became an observer at Scampton.
I well remember the 230OCU arriving and your dad appearing in the office. What a wonderful bloke he was. He was so understanding of my grief. He had his students taking me up in the chipmunk fairly often, and within a week of him being posted to run the simulator at Finningley he was on the phone inviting me to come over and FLY it!.
I went on to get my pilots licence in Kenya.
l will never forget his kindness, and his sense of fun, he really was inspirational.
Kind regards
Clive Pritchard.