Ford prison riot
Lec also operated an Morane-Saulnier Paris exec jet out of Bognor, and occassionally it used to divert into LGW. Noisy beast but according to the pilot it had great performance.
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The RAF section of my Grammar School CCF visited RNAS Ford in about 1956. We were shown around by a FAA pilot who had put his back out in a carrier landing, and was hobbling along with a stick. He had probably drawn the short straw, poor chap, to be lumbered with escorting a load of schoolboys in blue uniforms around the station, in his injured state. Not a great encouragement for any of us to aim for a cadetship at Dartmouth, if that was how the Senior Service treated its officers, we thought!
I definitely recall there were Wyverns there, and quite a few Gannets, both types being built for functionality rather than beauty - big, ugly looking brutes of aircraft. However, there were also a number of sleek jets, which I think may have been Sea Hawks since they had tricycle undercarriages, unlike Attackers with their ungainly looking tailwheel gear.
I definitely recall there were Wyverns there, and quite a few Gannets, both types being built for functionality rather than beauty - big, ugly looking brutes of aircraft. However, there were also a number of sleek jets, which I think may have been Sea Hawks since they had tricycle undercarriages, unlike Attackers with their ungainly looking tailwheel gear.
