Now here's a turn up for the logbook!
It seems that XL573 did operate out of Laarbruch as she appears in my logbook on 18 May 1982 when D2 and I flew her as 'bounce' against a 4-ship of Buccs in the Ardennes - I was Wpns Ldr on 16 at the time! I recall that the LLK Hunters belonged to Station Flight and were available to both XV & 16 as and when programmed.
Working backwards, I also flew another Bounce sortie in her on 11 Feb 82 with N*** B******* polling it, and another on 23 Jul 81 with D** F****** at the helm!
Strangely, didn't fly her at all during our Bucc downtime in 1980 when I was OCU staff.
So, it seems 573 was at LLK throughout 1981/82
See! We navigators have our uses!
Thankfully, 573 was not the one we managed to overstress (that was XF995) whilst I was following the OCU's US Exchange pilot's demands that I show him my aeros! Well, he told me to just pull back on the stick!
Now with some 40 hours Hunter under my belt (all RH Seat) during 4 Bucc Tours!
Arrabest and good luck with the article
Foldie
