http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_wellington_dwi.html

gives some more info.

One wonders how they maintained an accurate 35ft altitude asl. Two lights in the nose and tail, perhaps !

Panoramic views of London? From Hendon? Oh, purleez.
As one who has visited the RAFM from its opening, I remember the relatively pleasant open spaces in which it was built, and despair at its present situation surrounded by a mass of housing and industrial estates. And replica aircraft? This is ill-conceived, and £85 million could be better spent on the fabric of the current buildings.

Christopher Reeve was also an active glider pilot (ASW20, I believe) at Booker, David Jason also flew gliders.

And, of course, Wodney, aka Nicholas Lyndhurst, is a keen PPL!

“50 years of the U-2” by Chris Pocock..all you need to know about the Dragon Lady.
Exhaustive in all aspects.

The 2 tone grey colour scheme (Sabre Scheme) was insisted upon by the UK Government, concerned about the implications of “black” ops being carried out by U-2s. The TR1 was so designated for similar reasons..to dissociate the aircraft from its dodgy predecessors.

I wonder if any of the RAF pilots who flew ( and survived) the U2 are still around?

Denis, did you check under that stove to see if there was a tunnel entrance!

So now I know what the noise was on Friday morning, heard in Pinner!

And one of the departees spooked Mrs S’s horse near Little Chalfont , she now tells me…

Nice pictures.

Sadly, don’t go looking for the old seaplane base at Kalafrana in the South of the island. It’s now completely submerged under a huge container port. My father was stationed at HalFar with 728 NAS up to the closure of the unit in 1966ish and I have fond memories of swimming off the “Officers Beach”…no sand, just rocks!…at Kalafrana. The airframe of Faith is pictured in the HMSO booklet about the Air War of Malta, in a quarry, which was just behind our house on the road to HalFar. Sad to hear the buses are going, I well remember sharing the bus from Birzebugga to the Auberge de Castille in Valletta with a variety of passengers including goats and chickens, the buses usually being elaborate mobile shrines. A great island with lovely people, hope they enjoy their stay.