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Old 10th Aug 2013, 08:18
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Fareastdriver
 
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4 FTS at RAF Heany had Tiger Moths, upgrading to Chipmunks in about 1951, that shared the airfield with Harvards. They overcame the mix in circuit behaviour by using separate relief landing grounds for basic training.
The Harvards used White's Run, a relief landing ground close the Bulawayo-Gwelo road, about five miles north. It was adjacent to Ntabizindula Mission where we lived for a short time.
When dad's Chevrolet was a bit sick he would go down there and be picked up by the morning weather recce aircraft and taken to work.
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