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Brian 48nav
 
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Good idea! But in my case, having left the mob after just over 6 years on the Herc' in late '73 I guess it was too early for individual airframes to have developed their own idiosyncrasies.

But under special memories:-

202, Dec' 67 - one of the crew that took it to Changi - now at Cosford.
205, Jan 29 1968 - first time I was let loose on my own to find somewhere away
from base, Labuan. Not too difficult to find Borneo!
201 Feb 29 - off to Oz, Edinburgh near Adelaide via Darwin and return via Perth
night and day Astro for real and I remembered things were different once
in the southern hemisphere.
199 May 23 '68 - a Westabout!
206 Jan 69 - we picked up a Kiwi soldier who had been wounded in Vietnam and
took him home.
204 April 22nd, the day I became a dad - returning from Kathmandu with the
great Shaun Fielding ( sadly RIP last month ).

Worst memory:-

290 9/11/71 Seeing the red flash as 216 hit the sea off Pisa!
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