Well I never, all these years I thought it was XW198, I wonder if I mixed it up with the Matchbox one?. Airfix incidentally produced the first Hercules after it came down off sticks, and despite being told, the early kit had beautifully cast jacking pads on the outside.
Airborne, missed XW201 off my list (corrected).
Was on the Wessex, Puma OCU 76 to about 80 when the Wessex departed to Benson, The Pumas remained put in the old OCU shed and the rest of us moved over to the OCU Chinook flight, with the late and sadly missed Arthur Mitchell as W/O (ex 230 Puma F/sgt) in the old 230 Sqn hangar, the Pumas then followed us over as it became established. From there I went to Bruggen on a couple of Jag Sqns, and would have been there attempting and failing to drink Germany dry at about the time you were flying them...
