Hi According to Rowland Whites book Vulcan 607. Bob Tuxford’s Victor touched down on runway 14 just after one in the afternoon. The Vulcan landed approximately 1 hour 45 minutes later So the time would be 2.45 approx. Assuming the wind direction did not change the runway would be the same. I see now the runway today is renumbered 13 and 31. Another clue is Tuxford and his crew watched the Vulcan approach from the pan and it came in from the west which would seem to confirm 14 was used. One other bit of proof is it mentioned that Martin glanced left to see George town on his final approach. I know Bob so could ask him to confirm if you like?

In all the time I was there aircraft only landed in one direction, the opposite of taking off. They even taxy back down the runway to get to the pan. A quick look on Google Earth will explain why.

That Lightning must’ve needed an awful lot of tins of Duraglit.

Wadpol you mean?

It works as advertised.

In an ideal world you do not want to kill the enemy simply wound him….

Indeed. If the balloon had gone up then we woud have been inundated with vast amounts of blister agents instead of nerve agents.

The Jaguar referred to was named for Dave Bagshaw, who also flew for TFC for a while as well as with the now-defunct Stearman team. A top bloke, I had the pleasure of flying with him once in a Stearman from the (now sadly also defunct) Swanton Morley airfield.

Indeed he was. I was with him on II (ac).

Baggers Spitfire, was that alluding to Sqn Ldr Bagshaw?

Tuxford’s team, the Victor crew who gave the Vulcan all the fuel it needed and risked running out themselves.
I worked on the Victors during that time and knew most of the crew.