Nov-Jan ’72/’73. Backflighted once due to tonsillitis.

The last picture in the group at the top of the thread looks like the gas chamber!

Somewhere I have named photos, but I don’t know where. Probably one of my sisters has them. I’ll try and get hold of them and scan them in.

Yes, if you watch closely it half rolls right, starts to turn right, then continues through a three quarter roll to the right – this causes the aircraft to go through the inverted, and ends up in a left turn.

Called the Derry turn, after the late John Derry [click] who performed it first.

It is best done in a jet aircraft and is rarely performed in propeller driven aircraft.

I’m fairly sure that a contributing factor to Mustangs having such success in the ETO is because there were few quality Axis pilots left by 1944. A great deal of success must surely be down to the excellent training given to Allied pilots so far away from the theatre of operations.

Yep, two papers to buy today.

Unfortunately they’d run out of Mails, but there were still a few DVDs left, when I finally rolled up to Tesco’s yesterday evening.

So I’ll be going a bit earlier today. 🙂

I’m planning on making a donation to the RAF Benevolent Fund [click] this year, because they’ve been particularly helpful to me recently. I’d urge everyone to take note of just how much they do for everyone who’s served in the RAF, even if for just one day. Whether it was yesterday, or 1st April 1918.

Equipment for disabled people, even modestly disabled, is notoriously expensive, yet they gladly help in any way they can.