No queues leaving and everyone was nice to the stallholders?

The Red Bull Arrows?

2100hrs UK… all seems fine!

Lincolnshire shirley?

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I dont think so…. and please, don’t call me shirley!

I wonder how the airframes are holding up to the ‘salt-laden air’ that all the doom and gloom so-called professionals were expressing such venom over and using up vast amounts of magazine articles a few years ago when the Beverley first moved to the Fort?

It certainly looks in better condition than the RAFM’s one!

It was a post-war flypast… although I do have some that were taken during the actual raid itself.

OK guys… I’ve held fire on this one in case I get accused of advertising again, but here goes.

In our ‘Airfield Focus 42: Upper Heyford Revisited’ author Peter Davis states: Following Soviet reports that Russia had exploded a 50-megaton atomic bomb, three WU-2s were hurriedly despatched to the UK from Laughlin,Texas and arrived at Upper Heyford on 19 August 1962 to carry out high altitude sampling missions over the North Atlantic. Such was the concern at the time that they did not leave until 19 November. In October, the Cuban missile crisis brought the world closer to Armageddon than at any other time during the ‘cold war’. The US imposed a blockade on Cuba and on 24 October the US Navy sailed towards the island to implement it.

I would not argue too much with that date… Britannia Brit… Autair 1-11… It could be 1969 though!