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99 Change Hands
I was a student nav on 151 Sqn at the time and flew in 'N', I am the only person with a white flying helmet. My understanding was that a tail letter had been allocated which made CHIVENOR possible for the first time. We were photographed by BAe's air photog and all promised a print - of course that never happened.
Thanks. I wondered about the tail letters - it seemed a bit convenient that the right tail letters were available! It was the BAe photo that was in the pub (The Marisco Tavern), presented by someone but I didn't make a note of who. I should have taken a photo of the photo - a quick hunt about the interwebs found this fairly cropped version, with the aforementioned white helmet clearly visible above 'E'.This crop doesn't show how nicely aligned with the island (north-south axis) the formation was, but also doesn't show the wing tip of the chase plane the BAe photog got in the shot!
