By: andrewclark - 29th April 2018 at 10:44
Maybe they didn’t, as they are the only ones that don’t have a callsign. Just a thought……
By: vampiredave - 29th April 2018 at 09:36
The annual RAF Fighter Command exercise, ‘Pinnacle’, during September / October 1951. The exercise was also the culmination of the three-month mobilization of the reserve and Auxiliary squadrons; both 501 and 614 Squadrons transferred from their Battle Station at Tangmere to Thorney Island on 29 September 1951, before being released and returning to Filton on 8 October. I still can’t fathom out why 213 and 249 Squadrons were included when they were both heavily involved in ground attack operations in the Middle East?
By: Sabrejet - 28th April 2018 at 22:02
Ex Coronet maybe?
By: Whitley_Project - 28th April 2018 at 21:28
Suberb find
By: uuoret - 28th April 2018 at 19:14
Yep!!
By: vampiredave - 28th April 2018 at 18:54
Further to my previous, forget what I said about 501 Squadron (although it was at TI on Camp in 1948), although its ‘War Station’ was Tangmere. What was 213 & 249 (Vampire) Squadrons doing at Wattisham instead of the Middle East? while 25 Squadron began to re-equip with Vampire 10s in July 1951
By: Worcs Aviation - 28th April 2018 at 17:52
Have you been sneaking around fields again John ?
Ant.
By: Worcs Aviation - 28th April 2018 at 17:40
RAF Comberton radar station near Pershore , Worcs.
By: vampiredave - 28th April 2018 at 17:01
501 Squadron was at Thorney Island on Summer Camp between 7 Aug – 28 Aug 1948
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