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Old 16th Jan 2020, 11:49
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Thanks everyone for identifying it was a Britannia navigators desk. I should have realised that as my film shows, a few frames earlier that it was XM497 and I had discovered, thanks to the squadron ORB's at Kew that there was a little story attached:


Britannia XM497 'Schedar' during the first 'round the world' flight by an RAF Britannia.

Britannia XM497 at Changi in September 1961 on it's round the world proving flight. Sqdn Ldr Wickes of 511 Sqdn, piloting 'Special Flight 6389', returned to Lyneham on 9th October 1961 having covered 33,000 miles in 15 days. Landing at Gibraltar, Ascension Island, Waterkloof (Pretoria), Mauritius, Cocos Island, Changi, Guam and Midway, Fairbanks (Alaska), Thule (Greenland) then back to Lyneham.

David

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