Would love to read his obit but I have reached the end of my “freeTelegraph”articles

How about the air battle that happened of the North East coast at the same time as the B of B?The Luftwaffe thought all the fighters were down south but little did they know that various squadrons were being”rested”!Bit of a turkey shoot ,look it up.should look good even done with CGI.

Seems a bit strange watching “963” with engines running when I did it in the RAF a mere 55 years ago ,just the same !The engines were run to full power out on the pan and then it was taxying time !Two of us on starter crew with the CO2 extinguisher at the ready ,then when the engines throttled back run behind to kick the chocks out,the large wooden ones!!Many times in BKY it would be raining and cold and we would curse the crew for taking so long!!!!

I suppose the “Cold war”is not in the same league as”The battle of Britain”and the RAF or MOD had no reason to give any money or support to saving an aircraft like the “shackelton”

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Here is 558 doing a roller at RAF Oakington C1965

There was a mention in a thread of the Hungarian crisis in 1956,well I remember that very well.Lots of them that escaped and were admitted to Britain ended up in the old RAF Hednesford camp which was about 3 miles from my home.It would seem that the quota received were mainly criminals who saw great opportunities around them and spent thier days wandering around the local towns stealing anything that wasn’t nailed down.Thankfully most of them were sent to America!!So in all the Syrian refugees how many were “problem”families back in Aleppo or Damascus?