Originally Posted by
Georgeablelovehowindia
Well, for once I haven't had to turn the house upside-down in a vain and frustrating attempt, because I located the box of slides within seconds. I was actually at Dyce that day and the poor quality Kodachrome transparency shows a tiny figure - Ike - disembarking from a Comet with the fin number 715.
Yes it was XK715.
I'd visited the National Archives at Kew and from the squadron ORB gleaned these details of Ike's Comet flight way back then.
Comet XK 715
Flight No. Spec 1416
Crew:
S/Ldr P. E. Pullen
F/O J. Byrne
F/S D. Rance
F/S J. Hayley
M. Eng J. Clark
Sgt M.C. Wendler
Sgt (W) M. Wood
Routing:
27th August 1959 Lyneham — LHR 1600 - 1620
28th August 1959 LHR — Dyce (Aberdeen) 0845 - 1005
29th August 1959 Dyce — Benson 1045 - 1205
29th August 1959 Benson — Lyneham 1305 - 1400