Yes, a rather glaring error on the Spit, what with it boasting cannons!

And I agree about the bombaimer’s camera and was disappointed they didn’t relay it at that particular stage.

How about the RAF Ex-POW Association?

Fabulous! Thanks for sharing, looks like an exciting afternoon’s work there.

And you’re right, the Sea Hawk looks fresh off the production line, superb job by the RNHF ground crew.

Early fifties hey? My late dad worked there for Airwork at that time, he met my mother in Liverpool and they got married in ’58 (Terry Thomas gatecrashed the reception looking for beer). He moved to BAC in Luton shortly afterwards then rejoined Airwork for whom he worked until retirement.

Sadly, I have naff all info on his time at Speke because all his mementoes and documents disappeared on one of our moves around Africa in my young days. All I have left are his passports, security cards and some photos post-Liverpool.

Ah, childhood memories, loads of Daks and F27s lined up for takeoff, loaded with paratroops…. me at the side of the exit onto the runway beside my dad… the noise, the waving hands, the grinning faces… picture one brings it all back.

Newforest posted the link you refer to. here it is, the Plane Motel in Godzone.

This is the modern, commercially driven RAF, as set out by the ‘Labour’ government, everything must pay for itself…