An remarkable record
RIP sir.

Like new, great job 🙂

It seems that there was a similar incident on the same day over Farnborough.

Nice find, looks like Spitfire 22/24 wheel to me.
http://www.airpowerworld.info/other-fighter-planes/supermarine-spitfire-mk-24.htm

Excellent find – thanks.

I think the film was made earlier than the 70’s (if it was the one I saw on TV in the early 60’s). It showed locals hopelessly beating at the locusts with branches and the Rapide doing the aerial spraying. What was literally “striking” was the racket of locusts splattering on the windshield as the Rapide ( or possibly the Anson) approached the swarm then, with the wipers going full tilt, the dramatic loss of visibility.

That sounds like the same film, it may well have been made earlier than the 70s but that would be when I saw it.

Looks like a wonderful send off.

The original engines ran on castor oil, only recently one of our Italian friends discovered that the engines were modified to run on mineral oil. Such engines had “M” in red painted on the reduction gear. We have two modified engines.

What was the modification?