By: merkle - 7th May 2008 at 22:41
many thanks But !!
Hi, thanks for that Wiesso ,
but i allready know of all the perticulars, and have seen the photos , etc , and i know the exact spot she went down as i live 4 miles from the site ,i even have a couple of bits ,given to me ,long time ago,
but my mystery is can anyone verify what i have allways been told, and that is that she had the LONGEST Duration Flight of any spitfire during ww2 , or certainly 1943 and previous to her crash, as i was told she broke the record,
and to me it certainly seems impossible that a spitfire can travel from Gibraltar in southern spain to Oxford (her intended route), but unfortunately she crashed in the bristol area , sadly F/L Johnson was killed on Bale out and landed a mile from th crash site , right outside a cottage door, the lady who found him was in a terrible state for days ,she heard the bang on her roof and ran to the door, only to find him there, sadly he had been killled , later enquiry prooved that he had struck the aircraft on bale out,,aircraft tookoff at 09:45 AM and was plotted over south coast at 2pm, @20’000 ft
15 to 20 mins later, dived into the ground at wraxall
would be interested if anyone can confirm this mystery of the Longest flight ??
thanks again
Merkle
By: wieesso - 7th May 2008 at 19:34
a record flight?
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=48833 #2
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