I just wondered if anyone might still have a copy of an edition that might help with the following (that's when Air Clues was published monthly)
Over on the Herc Thread some pics have prompted a discussion around the support given by the RAF to an Expedition to Greenland in 1968 (Herc Thread Page 124 #2469 if you're interested). The Air Clues article is believed to feature the late S/L Mike Nash and the support given by a RAF C-130K.
It is believed that this article may relate to the British Trans-Arctic Expedition led by Sir Walter William "Wally" Herbert.
From 1968 to 1969, Wally Herbert led the British Trans-Arctic Expedition, a 3,800-mile surface crossing of the Arctic Ocean, from Alaska to Spitsbergen, which some historians had billed as the ‘the last great journey on Earth.’ In July 1968, having crossed 1,900 km of rough drifting ice, Herbert and his team established a camp. Because they could not reach a position where the drift of the trans-Arctic ice-stream was in their favour, they were forced to stay for the winter, as they drifted around the pole. Only when sunlight returned the following year could they continue their journey, finally reaching the North Pole via the Pole of Inaccessibility on 6 April 1969.
However this great achievement was somewhat overshadowed by the Apollo Moon Landings.
If you do have a copy of the article ... it would be great to include this under the RAF Herc Life Story Thread
Many thanks ...