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Old 25th Jan 2011, 16:02
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John (Gary) Cooper
 
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I distinctly recall being on a Jeep Drop at Watchfield, there were two Jeeps in tandem underslung Hastings TG531 on 6th April 1955, the flight time from Lyneham to Watchfield and return was 1 hour and 15 minutes. My ATC 3822 mentions nothing more than this but I seem to recall 4 chutes deployed on each Jeep and what I recall that the aircraft appeared to 'lift' as the load was dropped. I was but 15 at the time

The set up was similar to this mock up at IWM Duxford Airspace hangar that I took a few months back

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