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Old 17th May 2022, 21:20
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POBJOY
 
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Halesland 'features'

One of the Halesland 'features' was the use of rocks to make messages/ faces.
On one particular course after a couple of rather low final turns (caused by leaving the ridge too late) it was decided to have a 400 ft marker made from rocks as a reminder not to be lower over that particular spot. Unfortunately this was made from a convenient pile of rocks that later transpired to be a feature called Robbies head which referred to the local GS CO (Weston) who had been the instigator of the ridge site. Halesland later featured in an incident report in the printed 'Gliding Lines' when a landrover attempted to drive through the side of the hangar. It appeared that the completely innocent LR was parked outside and upslope of the shed, and had a course Cadet in the pass seat. The I/C the course indicated to the cadet to 'bring the rover' down and to his credit he slid over and set forth on this mission. The Rover impaled itself in the hangar side and rather spoilt the I/C's day.
It appears that the Cadet (not a staff Cadet or even a driver) managed to initiate a start, but had not progressed on to the steering / braking part of his instant self training. !!!!
By the way 575 your Mossies were the stars at the Biggin 'At Home' show in 59, also memorable for a Spitfire (SL574) belly landing on a Bromley cricket pitch the next day after a London BoB fly past.

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