The thing is, or was, that on a windy day and lightly loaded, you were basically trying to taxi a damn great kite and it would lift of its own volition before it could be stopped, rather than anyone set out to deliberately try to hop it. The use of the word apparently was because I myself did not witness the same, so it is a sort of heresay although I believe it may well have happened.

Breitling Connie

Yes Breitling Connie was low o/h Angmering headed W (Fairford) with small twin (Piper?) just about then.:):):)

Roasting gently here in my office on the sunny South Coast, when among the general background noise I heard what sounded like a powerful, but distant rumble of aero engines.

Dragged myself to the window and saw what I swear was a Lockheed Constellation following a smaller single engined type south across the coast over Hastings at approx 15:55.

They were in the distance, so I suppose it could have been a B25, but it looked too large and I swear it had the “banana” fuselage look and the rounded fins of a Connie?

Any ideas what it was, where it was headed to/from etc?

Aah very true – but didn’t it have the engines run-up on occasion, I know the Fw190U did. This is worth doing also.
Whatever transpired about the rumour of bricked-in WWII planes under Templehof (don’t think packing crates or brownpaper were mentioned though)