One of the more remarkable events in Hastings history was the locked/reversed elevator incident. Sketchy memory says airborne and had to fly on trims only?? Anyone anything further?
The pics of return from WOTG revive memories of dispatching as No 2 or 3 and, once we had got the bags recovered, putting heads round the door frame to get a marvellous slipstream head massage!The pic of the 'wheelie' landing is a bit 'down market'! 'Proper' tail-dragger chaps insisted that the simultaneous contact of all three was the 'approved method'!
Generally acknowledged that the Hastings was very much the most tricky to manage. Our transatlantic cousins went for wheelies or nose wheels - nuff said!
