Thanks for the pic Ross. That is exactly how I remember him.
Well 6foot 4″ against me WAS tall!
Story had it on the squadron that John had tried to get into the Reds but was not the right shape to fit in the gnat. Don’t know how true that was.
Good luck with your research.

Mally.

As many will say “Google is your friend” Loads of stuff there under ‘Heston Airport’

Hi. Just put Goldcliffe Close , Warrington into Multimap.com and all will be revealed. Use the various settings to get the whole picture.
Good Luck.

Popular Flying Nov 1934

Ken, Google up this. It might be of interest.

Popular Flying magazine November 1934.

Click on the relevant entry and then on the cover page when this displays.

Any probs pm with your phone number and I’ll walk you through it.

Mally

hedgehoppers anon

I was called up in 1960 and sent to Bridgenorth for basic training.
In our billet was a young lad from the North East called Ray Honeyball.
He strummed the evenings away on his guitar, He eventually became the bass guitarist in the group Hedgehoppers Anonymous.

Aircrew? Certainly not.

Google Ray Honeyball for more info on the group.

The door dropped down and was held in place by a strap. It was hinged at the at end and would have been of little use in the event of a bale out. ( yes we did wear parachutes when performing some tasks).
In the event of a wheels up landing it would not have been feasable to
try to escape from there rather better to just open a side door and walk out.
Despite having flown for hundreds of hours on the Argosy I can honestly
say that I have no idea why that door was there. I DO know what was
on the other side of it however but that wasn’t the question.

Sad to report that the Norwich Evening paper is showing that Steve Shutt did not make it.
As a former resident of Hingham it is especially sad for me.
R.I.P.

eddywinch………Quite correct . It was a celebration of THUM flight and although the event didn’t get the 3 Spits hoped for ( due bad weather) it was blessed by Rob Davies in Big Beautiful Doll from Woodchurch. His appearance related to the fact that 611 squad had P51’s at sometime in their career. Photo was in the Visiter the following week if you can locate a copy.