Early in 1967, 2 of us flew our solo landaway navexes in JP3s(separately!) from Cranwell to Acklington on a Monday am, briefed to have lunch and RTB in the afternoon. As we arrived at Acklington it started to snow.
By the time we shut down it was blizzarding, and the airfield closed shortly afterwards. So we were stuck there with no kit other than what we were wearing until the airfield reopened 5 days later - dual sorties only! Eventually Cranwell had to fly 2 more JPs with 4 instructors up to recover us home. Until then we had a great time being looked after by the Acklington students - Borrow shirt from one, trousers from another, shoes from another etc - get taken out for the night - hand everything back next morning in hope - repeat the process the next evening, and so on ....
