And finally….! 1989, very mature! A fairly straight forward one to guess. And that’s all of my own ATC photos from camp during my 5.5 years with 1075 (Camberley) Sqdn. I still regard those times as some the best ever. Anyone sad enough to want more i can bore you with some others but I reckon that’s more than enough for now!

1987

A more recent one this (1985). I won’t tell you locations – see if you can guess. This one’s pretty easy.

Finally dug out a few photos from camps. I’ll post some more as I can find them.

Firstly, a blast from the very past – my dad’s CCF days at Harrow Grammar School. I’d like any info on aircraft type and location although the latter is probably a vain hope. The close-up is of my dad (L) and one of his then best mates, Roger “Rats” Glover (R), latterly bass guitar player of Deep Purple!

Snapper – thought the following may be of interest as the link above has a few inaccuracies.

Andrew Beck Mamedoff was born in Thompson Connecticut. On 8 Oct 1941 he was leading a group of 15 Hurricanes of 133 sqdn from Fowlmere to Eglinton (N. Ireland). A refuelling stop was scheduled at Andreas (Isle of Man) but due to bad weather the group got split up. Mamedoff and several others tried letting down through the cloud but unfortunately he crashed and was killed at Maughold (pronounced Mackold) on the NE coast of the Isle of Man. 3 other pilots were also lost, the remainder landing safely elsewhere. All 4 airmen were buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery. Therefore Andrew Mamedoff was not killed in combat as stated elsewhere. He was 29 and had recently married.

In October 1996 the Manx Aviation Preservation Society (which I formed 2 years previously) held a memorial service in Maughold churchyard and unveiled a plaque in memory of the 4 airmen. One of the pilot’s sister attended as well as Wilson (Bill) Edwards of the Eagle Squadron Association. A letter was read out from Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, who recalled meeting some of those killed. I read a passage from the bible and another MAPS member, Steve Poole orgainsed the whole event. We even had a Flypast from a Wessex Helicopter, trailing both RAF and US flags and carrying a USAF exchange officer on board. The helicopter landed next to the church.

To read a better account and photos :

http://www.maps.iofm.net/broken_wings.htm

Also see Steve Poole’s superb book “Rough Landing Or Fatal Flight” which has details on all 4 airmen as well as the American ATA ferry pilot killed the same day in a Wellington which crashed into a hill nearby. It also details some 250 aircrashes on and around the Isle of Man.

Hope this is of some use.

Hmmm!

Interesting appraisal.

Are you absolutely sure you passed over Berlin on your way back from Frankfurt? (Bearing in mind it is almost 180 degrees in the opposite direction!). You also state you departed on 07L, the same runway you arrived on yet your first trip report states you landed on 25R – which was it?

Can you confirm the sandwich is what made your associate sick? Are you qualified to state this as fact? If not, be careful making possibly slanderous accusations including an insinuation about Capt. Alex Roberts. I’m sure if you took the time to enquire you’d find him as far removed from a drunkard as is possible, even if your remark was intended tongue in cheek and off the cuff – too many people out there wishing to jump on the publicity express about pilot’s drinking habits. I therefore suggest your comments may have been a little ill-advised?

Upon what flying experience is your appraisal based? To judge a flight by the catering is a pretty poor yardstick although I’d admit the All Day Deli is not the greatest.

By the way, the term is landed firmly not “hardly” which would mean barely landed. Should you wish to do better yourself of course then may I suggest you shell out the requisite £50,000, get an ATPL and show us how it’s all done. In the meantime perhaps you could exercise a little more restraint before character assasinations fly from your fingertips and commenting on others flying ability, unless of course you are an airline pilot yourself, in which case, fair enough.

I note your tagline with interest – don’t feel obliged to fly BA if it’s all so offensive to you. And the flight you flew on was operated by British Airways CitiExpress, not BA, to be entirely correct.;)

Just to be padantic and anorakish (Great-coatish?), 2 of the chaps in the first picture which Moggy sepiaed are wearing the orange 1950’s/60’s era Mae Wests which are the ones (incorrectly) worn in the Battle of Britain film, and thus just as incorrect for WW2 Bomber crews.

Don’t even start me on inacurracies of kit in movies – I’m not allowed to watch with the rest of the family due to the constant tuts and head-shaking and cries of “Dear oh dear” etc.!