… fifty years to the day, my friend and I sheltered from the rain under the wing of Hurricane G-AMAU and photographed this Spitfire – AB910 then belonging to Vickers Armstrong.
It was the ‘ticket only’ RAeSoc Garden Party at White Waltham…we did not have a ticket… but needs must. It was the first time we had been ‘up close and touching’ to a flying Spitfire.
Mark,
..and a shot of AB910 taken at Goraszka, Poland a couple of weeks ago.
By: Dave Homewood - 23rd June 2008 at 16:39
Peter, congratulations on 50 years of up close and personal with Spitfires. That’s an achievemnet. I wonder if you have lost count of how many you’ve been that close to since.
Sorry to hear about your mate, John.
By: Arabella-Cox - 23rd June 2008 at 07:56
….and 50 years ago I was working on the last Sunderlands in RAF Sevice at Seletar, S’pore 205/209 Squadron, sadly I just heard yesterday of the passing of my engine corporal Diz Jordan
RIP Diz, may you have Blue Skies mate………
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