Another twin…….

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Vickers Wellington, going off the long thin wing profile. It looks more like a charcoal drawing than a photograph.

The more i look at it the more i’m certain its a Wimpy.

just googled the date on the note 24/11/40 and there were some Wellington’s destroyed on the ground in Malta on that day….. might be just me putting 2+2 and coming up with 5……….

i was at that show as a young 9/10 year old boy, can still picture the last moments in my head of the spit going up into the loop and hitting the deck hard in a slight nose up attitude. made quite an impression at that age, but fortunately didn’t spoil my passion for aviation.

RIP David Moore.

Spent 4 months at the ATR based there 12 years ago, a leg injury in training ended my budding army service though. I remember going into one of the hangers and seeing what looked like an Auster army co-op aircraft in there, wonder what happened to it? Never got to go into the tower museum which is a shame but spent plenty of time getting beasted around parts of the old airfield and in one of the hangers that had been converted into a gym!! Can also recall one day when the airfield was overflown by a pair of eagles at low (by American standards…… :highly_amused:) level, that was a lovely sight and sound!!

The contrast I’ve witnessed between the UK and the USA in their attitudes towards their deceased war heroes is a revelation.

its disgraceful, the American’s have a unit called JPAC (Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command) dedicated to finding service personnel who are still missing in action/killed in action body not recovered. Its just a shame that our government don’t seem to take the same pride in finding/bringing home the remains of our personnel who gave their lives on active duty.

Top draw stuff there 467 sqn RAAF, neat to see your granddad flew on ‘Sugar’ 😎

thanks, yeah not bad flying your first op on a aircraft that had recently knocked up its century! been doing some bits of research managed to find out that his pilot was awarded the DFC at the end of the tour. cant find out anything else about his crew apart from his room mate Eric Klemm who was killed on ops with another crew.

F/O McLauchlan.D.F.

Sgt Hodgkinson.R.

F/O Phillips.H.C.

F/O Craigen.G.P.

Sgt Smith.A.H.

F/S Klemm.E.J.L.

Sgt Thorp. J.F.

Also found a picture of one of his other aircraft that he flew in, DV277 PO-W “Weary Willy”

never got to fly in a chippie they had been replaced by Bulldogs by the time i got do some AEF flying from RAF Woodvale, shame really. Did get to fly in the Grob Tutor and the Vigilant motor glider also a few times, the highlight though was a flight in a Nimrod from Kinloss!! Now that was fun!! 😎

Passed these aircraft many times while doing my gliding scholarship (in Grob Vigilant’s) with the ATC in the early 2000’s. Its a real shame that that 635 VGS are no longer flying out of Samlesbury was a nice area to mooch around. Plus the added fact of one of the country’s first KFC’s been on the other side of the airfield! 🙂