Originally Posted by
Union Jack
Hear! Hear! What a splendid first post, and very glad that someone apparently alerted you to this very interesting thread - let's hope that there will be many more posts, especially once that logbook is to hand.
You have every right to be more than a "little proud" of your father.
Jack
Thanks UJ. Oh well.. the log book! Yes there's a few stories to pass on. Arthur had 17 emergency landings. The worst was perhaps having the engine of a Vampire cut out on him when he was CO of 21 MU at Aldergrove (now Belfast Airport). He just made it back to the Airfield, belly-landed, slewed across a road and off the perimeter, finishing through a hedge. One written-off aircraft and one casualty... an unfortunate chicken!
I think he ate it.
