Ahhhh that long ago, remember it as it was yesterday, seeing my mates off to war and seeing them back.

Sitting on the cliffs above Plymouth Sound watching Harriers doing touch & goes on the ramp at the back of the Atlantic Conveyor….

have a look here..

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Me109-Black-6/352717801421301

One of the reports state he “left the ship” when it keeled over & he was thrown into the oggin…

I’ve lost count of the number of morons of TV & in the papers who have said “It was lucky the ship was in shallow water when it ran aground”

yeah, because running aground with 2000ft of water under the keel in the middle of the ocean is a real ******…

Here ya go:

34° 5’46.66″N 118°44’40.36″W

It’s just under a mile from the road I was on.

I ride past the filming location most weekends. It’s still there, on the South side of Mulholland Hwy between Los Virgenes & Cornell road in SoCal.

Between 10.45 & about 15.00 in this vid you should recognize the mountains on the left..:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD9YMymwAfo&list=UUL0JMOAU_baZtgQcihlWMPg&index=5&feature=plcp

gimme a minute & I’ll get the Google Earth grid ref…

I have some odds & sods laying about, I’m using a mainwheel from PA908 as a doorstop in my garage…