I imagine it was NF920 which was shown in the John Nichol documentary (repeated a couple of days ago). Detailing the
missions flown by 617 Squadron after the dams raid ?
The Sharkmouth P-51 which departed Duxford for Southend yesterday afternoon, left Southend for Roskilde in Denmark this morning.
I assume to an airshow ?
It was a very quiet day at Duxford. Apart from the pleasure flight’s, nothing flew until just after 4pm, when the Rafale woke everyone up.
With the cloud base being so low, it put a damper on proceedings. Once the Rafale flew, it got quite busy.
Regarding phone patches. They do it via one of their HF frequencies. I often used to listen to USAF aircraft on 11.175 USB
crossing the Atlantic. I imagine a lot is done via satellite links now ?
Just a quick heads-up for those interested: Tonight there will be an update on PM with Eddie Mair on BBC Radio 4.
I only caught the tail end of this, so didn’t get the BBC’s slant on the story. I wonder what their reasons were for resurrecting this incident ?
Have there been developments in the search for the wreckage ? Apparently the story is to be continued next week.
Thanks for posting that Tony, as an item on the same page answers a question for me.
Many years ago when there were a couple of Harriers at Southend Airport for the airshow, some of the ground crew were raising
some money by selling compressor blades. I still have one of these which I bought for £1 🙂
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