I rememeber this Javelin gathering air samples above Cardigan Bay after Concord had flown the other direction supersonic.

Just reading Last of the Few by Max Arthur as this post appeared,certainly confirms why it is important to collect interviews. For many years the Bof B has been portrayed based on official only accounts, but as more personal accounts are published the battle is all the more astonishing. Chilling to read of a pilot who fell asleep while on patrol and so many other incidents which would be dismissed as impossible if placed into a film screenplay.

I invited the University chap mentioned in the article to join this forum. I have always found enthusiasts here to be very helpful and compared to my old days down at PRO and AHB it saves a lot of duplicate effort.

He states that recovered items will go to museums so here and BAPC is a good place to talk about what is available.

Also crashed to earth next to the Tower Blackpool was Clem Sohn the so called birdman who used to parachute and freefall with sort of wings.

Astonishing that you choose a view from my hometown which I recognised. I suppose that being an aerial photographer helped. I recall visiting that Central station before it closed .

For many years this Chipmunk was based at Blackpool as GG and was very active including a forced landing on the beach.

A lot of DayGlo shade Fire Orange was never painted on aircraft,it was applied as sticky back panels made by the 3M company. The application of the paint variant needded light undercoat to make it reflect properly and was time consuming, the panels were quick. Look at examples such as RAF Chipmunks and you can often see a gap between blocks of the dayglo, this is because the rolls were a certain width.