They all look so young! I got a bit invoved with the War Lover as I did two two hour flight in an Anson with the main door rewmoved and the camera man shooting pictures of passing clouds, which were used in the film.

Redcoat air cargo/red air/bbc tv
 

Brakedwell ; Explains all. I wrote to Shirley asking her to marry me. No reply.

Gosh Brakedwell, you do look rather like Steve McQueen. Or Robert Wagner... :p

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Treadi ; He does. That's why I got no reply & Brakedwell always got all the hotties first. Hate guys like that.

Listen who;s talking!

Just watching some episodes of Buccaneer and noticed something in some of the external Britannia shots:- what is the pod mounted under the fuselage under the wing centre section? Most Britannia's don't seem to have this.

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....0d9c950c11.png

Special fitting for trips behind the Iron Curtain?

They were nav equipment aerials, which were fitted to all the RAF Brits. but I can't remember which.
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ad99c8967.jpeg

That is a lovely picture of "Regulus", Which is preserved at Kemble.

I think the Nav aid was Green Satin.

browndhc2

The photo was taken at Thule AFB, on a polar Navigation flight up to the North Pole with Spec N Nav’s at the end of their course. We were airborne over 11 hours on that flight.

Thank you for the additional information brakedwell, sounds an interesting trip. I seem to recall reading an article in "Flight" about the Boscombe Down Britannia undertaking a North Pole navex to test various bits of Navigation kit that were temporally installed in the cabin.

I've heard of the Nav question when flying over the North Pole.
It goes somthing like this:-
Q. We are directly over the North Pole so, which direction is New York?
A. Due South.
Q. Which direction is London?
A. Due South.
OK. Now we are in the Sh*t. Fly 257 degrees Grid.

Think I vaguely recall that - around 1979?

Wonderdful - thanks Brakedwell.

After recently losing Shirley Ann Field, the lovely Pamela Salem has also now passed. Very sad.

She was VERY CLASSY as Monica Burton in Buccaneer

Sounds like the yearly 'Aries' polar flights. A bit of thread drift... but see here for a VC10 version of that flight: https://www.vc10.net/Memories/everyt...html#NorthPole
The VC10s of 10 Squadron carried out these flights from 1984 to 1989, the Boscombe Down Britannia carried out these flights before 1984, the Boscombe Down Comet took over the duty after 1989.