Here's a closer look at 'Schedar', at Changi a few months later.
Britannia XM497 ‘Schedar’ after unloading on a ‘Changi Slip’ run from Lyneham in January ‘62. On this trip XM497 had flown to Khormaksar by Flt. Lt. A.R.King, of 511 Sqdn on the 27th as Flight 6307 and been taken over on the 28th Jan by Sqn. Ldr. J.Richardson, also of 511 Sqdn who brought her to Changi via Butterworth the same day.
On the 1st Feb Sqdn. Ldr. Richardson left with her, still as Flight 6307, ‘slipping’ again and after their rest break at Khormaksar, were able to take XL636, also returning from Changi, home to Lyneham on the 3rd Feb. That’s because XL636’s ‘inward journey’, as Flight 6308 had got to Khormaksar on the 30th Jan with a 99 Sqdn crew and was taken on by a 511 Sqdn crew to Changi arriving on the 1st Feb, also through Butterworth. Thus XM498 and XL636 crossed over at Changi and XM497’s crew picked up XL636 after their break in Khormaksar. Two squadron’s slipping crews made it all rather complicated!
From my RAF Changi early '60's archive at
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David