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[QUOTE=RPSmith;1194004]I spent my first day (on probation ? 🙂 ) as a ground support volunteer with the Classic Flight. What a cold introduction but what a friendly bunch.
It was great to talk to visitors who had come to Coventry to fly in the Dak including two lots from Sussex.
Another chap (from the Fens) had done his national service in the RAF in the early fifties and had flown in quite a few types – this was his first time in a Dakota. He had been a fireman and had spent 18 months with 605 Squadron at Honiley (his flight today must have gone very close to Honiley whilst transitting between Warwick and Kenilworth). He told me a tale of a Supermarine Attacker taking off from Honiley loaded with ordnance, about 3/4 down the runway a wingtip hit the ground and there was an almighty explosion. His fire vehicle sped to the scene but no aeroplane the explosion had leap-frogged it “a half mile” where it came down wrecked but substantially whole – the pilot unharmed!! Was he spinning me a yarn?
A great day, the first of many (if I’ve passed the test!)

Roger Smith.

PS I’m not the Roger Jesse is referring to above :)[

Hi RP Smith,

For some reason I cannot post shots on the forum, so I put them on airshowbuzz.com under WireFox. The Roger I mean is on the shot of the
Shackleton crew on the left. Do you know who the person is on the right ?

Cheers JJ.