I first saw a photograph of the Alcock & Brown Vickers Vimy when it was one of a couple of visual questions during my interview for my Student Apprentice grant at BAC Weybridge - obviously during takeoff from near Torbay as you could see a clapboard house in the background and the ground was falling away. Fast forward about fifteen years and I finally get to visit the "Purple Palace" Management Area at Canadair in Montreal. In the corridor is the self-same photograph! I suddenly realised I joined Canadian Vickers! Forward another ten years, and I get my own view of that valley but with the ground rising towards us as we do the first "for real' CAT IIIa Approaches and one landing on the Canadair CRJ200 Regional Jet using a HGS (Head-Up Guidance System) - all under the control of Torbay Marine Radio!
Tried to attach a scan of the Takeoff but "no Security Tag" so...
Having done a search, this link is to the same photograph:
https://connachttribune.ie/epic-mome...lying-history/