Originally Posted by
Pom Pax
BEACH NEWS Journal of Waterbeach Community Association Autumn 2011 No.228.
I saw the scene a day or two later.
I as at School in Waterbeach and during the weekdays I used to go up to the A10 and watch all the aeroplanes that Waterbeach had to offer. We used to lie directly under the approach which was probably where Mr
Tebbit ended up when he failed to take off. Imagine this : I watched a bunch of Venoms of 253sqn joining overhead then coming in to land across the A10 and the aeroplanes were passing over us about 30 to 40 ft ish. Then I went home for my tea (32 AMQ if any of you knew Waterbeach - now Park Crescent) followed very quickly by my dad still in his flying overalls and he was on a mission. He knocked ten shades of S--T out of me - and I never ever went back to the undershoot by the A10. In later years he told me he recognized me
as he was about to flare in his Venom. QED.