WHAT, WHERE and WHEN
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Doing better than me chaps - I had assumed it was about 1982! There's no date on the back of the pic, but I will ask the guy who gave it to me if he knows any more.
It is the right answer, as for the date I thought it was 1962 but you may well be correct. It was the filming of 633 squadron.
I was an ATC cadet visiting Bovingdon several times during the filming. We'd already had 'The War Lover' filmed with B17's a couple of years previously, so the pleasure of multiple Merlins was superb! I vaguely recall only 4 airframes were airworthy although they had 12 there, one being written off by John Crewdson deliberately retracting the gear on the ground to simulate a crash landing.
A few years later ('68) we had 'Mosquito Squadron' and part of the 'Battle of Britain' simultaneously filmed there!
A few years later ('68) we had 'Mosquito Squadron' and part of the 'Battle of Britain' simultaneously filmed there!
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Originally Posted by JW411
I would think that if a Mosquito landed at Northwood it would have made the papers. Do you perhaps mean Northolt?
I was not referring to Northwood as being the location shown in the photograph but to the ICAO code that Kieron quoted i.e. EGWX which was and probably still is for Northwood (MOD).
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EGWX was Bovingdon until it closed in '78.
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It was definitely 1964.
I was trying to relate it to where I was prior to England winning the World Cup (oh, yes they did!) in '66.
Such a long time ago it's difficult to remember (and I was on a night shift last night)
I was trying to relate it to where I was prior to England winning the World Cup (oh, yes they did!) in '66.
Such a long time ago it's difficult to remember (and I was on a night shift last night)
Jabberwok, these were at International Alloys in Aylesbury. I can't remember seeing any Fireflies at Lasham, but there were quite a few Sea Furies there, including one almost complete TT fuselage - I've got a photo somewhere.