Not lost but looking for some that were lost.
Bardufoss, Norway, 3rd March, 1978.
A task comes up. Some friends from Hereford are unsure of their position and have to be recovered. One of their leaders comes with us and briefs us on a gizmo that they carrying which can be picked up by our tuneable homer in the cockpit. we get airborne and after flying east for a bit up it comes.
We are up at three thousand feet AMSL but only a couple of hundred AGL and we press on following the homer. I am map reading whilst I am flying and I point out to our friend a line on the map that says Norway/Sweden and he tells me to carry on. A quick look around the scenery and their is sweet Fanny Adams apart from a snow covered fence.
We carry on, for quite a long time, and then I point out this line that says Sweden/Finland. Again SFA and then we find them.
We pack them on and at full bore, fifty feet or less and flee back to Norway.