The Last Mission
 

The Last Mission has been re-published as:

Live and Let Spy: BRIXMIS: The Last Cold War Mission
Author: Steve Gibson
ISBN: 9780752465807

and is readily available through ABE Books.

Silly price being asked for the 1997 first edition.

YS

More on BRIXMIS:

Live and Let Spy also available from Amazon

Yes Dave, I was on 60 in the late 1960's and recall that, if the weather was bad, we often didn't deliver the film to Rheindallen until 1600 on Friday...... Not the best time for you guys!

Pembroke at Wildenrath
 

Many years ago I was on an ATC Camp at Wildenrath. My somewhat battered 3822 records a 15 minute trip in Pembroke XL953. This one had a full pax fit, and most of the camp were given a trip in it.

According to one of the crew, this one had the nav's desk in the cabin, as a 'senior officer' liked to fly it from time to time to keep his hand in.

Can anyone confirm this?

Read all about it….!

The Hunting Pembrokes

BRIXMIS Chipmunks
 

Heard somewhere that a twin radial engined RAF comms/transport aircraft named after a dock may also have played a role.

Pembroke C(PR)Mk.1. Sixty Squadron Wildenrath
 

Photographic images of the internal photo kit fitted to the 60 Squadron PR Pemmies have been impossible to find despite 40 years + of interest in the type. Best I have found is a page of a 1958 Hunting Pembroke brochure which shows the mounting frames for the oblique cameras against the optically flat side windows and the vertical camera position on the floor above the sliding belly doors. I am unable to post images on this site so sorry for that. Anyone with internal photos is cordially invited to share them!

In the early 80s the 2 ringer who played the Russky in most Air Exercises at Chivenor,one B B,declared himself an Ex Chippie driver of said outfit.He was fluent in Russian,and was in Germany recovering from an incident,of which he had had a few,but flew the Chippie on such sorties.He became Boss of 63 I believe a bit later.The Wingco Ops at Chivenor then was also Ex Germany and had done likewise,and knew BB well.Said Wingco was in the "chair" when the Pablo Mason "Red Tea Shirt" event occurred.Somewhere I have a small Air to Air Pix of the 151 Hawk minus most of its nose with main gear hanging,prior to the SNO vacating followed by the tattered red tea shirt worn by Pablo,taken by the chase plane sent up by G L the Wingco Ops,but am not clear how to post it here!!

This one? From http://www.ejection-history.org.uk

http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/P...Pablo/hawk.jpg

For the uninitiated, was this a bird strike or a mid-air collision?

Midair with another 151 Sqn Hawk, 29th July 1983.

All four crew ejected successfully, one Hawk came down near Holsworthy, the other went into Bideford Bay.

Yes indeed the very same!!The SNO,known as the Albatross or Black Pete, was presented with the broken nose including probe,rather bent mounted on a Mah ogany Plinth,which I think may reside in his hallway.It all resulted from a 1V1 that went wrong,and the unfortunate Foreign Stude that caused it,plus Ex Crimson Crab Instructor banged out immediately.Whilst the surviving airframe was deemed flyable, Uncle George sent up a chase plane to assess whether it was recoverable.The SNO elected to vacate,as there was not much left of the nose in front of him and leave Pablo to attempt a grass landing on the remaining gear,however it decided to become uncontrollable after the first ejection,hence the tattered tea shirt caused by Pablo's successful subsequent ejection.As stated the Aircraft became lost at sea.

The US had their own SF group a clandestine unit of about 90 Green Berets

Detachment "A", Berlin Brigade

One of the Gatow/BRIXMIS Chipmunks mentioned on Heimdall's site is WP971 now G-ATHD on the British register and on which I have several hundred hours.

It originally had a hybrid colour scheme of RAF paint with civvie registration displayed but it now has an authentic Training Command scheme. (I believe at one time this aircraft was also at Hamble).

http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/...psccq9ig3m.jpg

There has been much on this forum about the activities of the 60 Sqn Pembrokes and the BRIXMIS Chipmunks. If anyone wants to dleve further they should try 'Looking Down The Corridors' by Kevin Wright and Peter Jefferies. ISBN No 9 780750 979474 published by History Press and available in paperback form. It should tell you what you wanted to know but were too frightened to ask. Notwithstanding Beags Valley incident.

Cromwellian - Just finished reading it. Very interesting read, and heightened for me by mention of Hans Neubroch, as a wg cdr, and whose obituary I wrote last year for our school old boys magazine.