Supermarine Scimitar
I was chewing the cud with a friend in the bar last night and it appears we both unknowingly grew up in the same area. Conversation turned to the early 1960's when on a regular basis a military jet would circle around the Bexley, Dartford and Crayford area at approx 1500 feet. He would go round and round in a sort of oval pattern for perhaps an hour or more at a time.
Now comes the question.....
I seem to recall the aircraft was carrying out some sort of gunsight, bombsight, radar tracking type development work for the Vickers Armstrong factory at Dartford.
Can anyone confirm that the aircraft was a Scimitar in the early days, changing to a Sea Hawk later?, and were they operated by FRADU?
Regards
SATCO Biggin
(feeling a bit old)