More from “Strategic Air Command”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FJVxtTNjJk
Now available on Blu-ray, worth picking up – crap film, but excellent footage!
Adding to Tin Triangles post, the landing was possibly THE most gentle, languid, placing down of a large aircraft I have ever seen. Kudos to pilot and crew – extremely professional in trying circumstances. Glad everything worked out safely.
Was watching the proceedings from close to the airport today, and heard interesting an r/t conversation.
When, on asking the control tower if any fast jets were airborne locally to provide a close visual inspection of the gear, the reply was that the Swedish Historic Flights Draken was just about to finish his display, and would be available to help.
His reply:
NO!…………..I want someone BRITISH!!!!!! 🙂
Hence the Spitfire was drafted in!(And missed his display at Portrush)
Many thanks for all the info, guys.
You are aware that the place that buses from the station leave from has moved around the corner and down the road some distance
I was NOT! 🙂 Is that the road up to the left on exiting the station, with the many(ahem!)-bus stops?
That David Niven film, “A Matter of Life and Death.” Was it also called “Stairway to Heaven” where he thinks he’s fallen out of a B-25 (or similar) and survived, and then gets to choose any figure throughout history to defend him in a trial, to determine whether he lives or dies?
Or are the 2 movies separate films?
Tom.
“A Matter Of Life & Death” was released in the US as “Stairway To Heaven” – they didn’t approve of the word “death” in he title, apparently! And I think it’s a Lanc he bales out of. (Unless they changed that too!)
Mosquito ROARING over David Niven’s head in “A Matter Of Life & Death”, convincing him that he’s NOT in heaven!
Seem to remember a “Harvard Meet” at Bassingbourne in ’78 – yes?
Tragic….
……..(the Halifax nose is staying).
Indefinitely?
Has the Lanc nose departed back to Lambeth?
TB382 On The “Low Green” at Ayr 13 July 1982
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F-101 I think.
P-51C Mustang Princess Elizabeth
is back?
How long will she be in the country – until Legends? 🙂
Years ago I was told that it ended up in a landfill over on the north side of the airfield. Sad, it really would improve the fuselage as an exhibit to have the fin re-attached.
This surely can’t be correct, is it?