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Old 8th May 2008, 15:09
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chevvron
 
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Well I remember that view from when 613 VGS detached there from Halton in about '67 and I was flying AEG in a Mk3 using runway 27! I did the first launch on the first detachment using the taxiway in front of those trees over to mid right; it was a weekday so we wern't allowed to use the runway.
I vividly remember on many occasions seeing Hercules departing from runway 22 from my home in nearby Chesham; they would appear over the horizon in a near 90 deg bank, 4 trails of black smoke behind them. Then of course we had The War Lover (B17s) 633 Squadron and Mosquito Squadron (both Mosquitos) all filmed there at various times between '61 and '67, with some sequences of The Battle of Britain in '67 too including the radio controlled Stukas.
I also scounged a couple of Anson flights from there; one was piloted by a guy with a badly scarred face (burns? Name of Colbourne?) whose takeoff technique was to hold it on the runway at full thottle then retract the gear without rotating!

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