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Old 24th Jan 2019, 20:23
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Fareastdriver
 
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Of note I remember a callout to a downed Whirlwind up country (yours FED?) during BP, but we were recalled before getting airborne.
That was the one.

It landed after an engine failure in between some palm trees with very little damage. It was recovered to the MU at Seletar and there we lost trace of it. I held the inventory for all the aircraft on the squadron so after a month or so I made enquiries as to when we were getting it back.

It had been presented to the Singaporean Air Force as a instructional metal fabrication repair jig.

I then had to go to stores to have the inventory made up for disposal.

The gleam in the Suppliers' eyes could be seen as far as Temple Hill Mess. In no time at all I was signing conversion forms, taking on all sorts of aircraft components; nothing serious apart from an odd Griffon. It must have weighed about thirty tons when we had finished. There then followed a period where ALL my flying clothing and Service equipment was written off with the aircraft therebye ensuring my permanent silence about the whole thing.

Changi closed about a year later and with it the evidence.
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