Hi Graham

You have a PM

Pleased to see that the BBC article has been edited as this morning it talked of him having ‘ejected’ from a Hurricane!

I was honoured to receive my PPL certificate from Ginger Lacey in 1979 at the Teesside Flying Club. It is signed by him and my CFI (Ken Large) the current owner of Chipmunk G-AKDN.

Hi Mat

Can’t help too much but I feel that something must be wrong somewhere.

Bowen-Morris was with 92 Sqn from 12/9/40-23/6/41 when he was shot down over France. I also have a photo of Sgt David Lloyd in Falkland Islands III although in this shot the door is down, but from the scratches on the paintwork it is the same aircraft. Lloyd was with 92 from November 1940 to 19/8/41. Both photos just show the cockpit area so the individual code letter is not visible.

Maybe the records are not right or the aircraft has been painted incorrectly?

Peter

Thanks for that. Was asking the question as I have a photo of nine 152 Sqn Meteors in an arrow head formation and some have black radomes.

Some superb footage, thanks for posting. Spotted Don Kingaby who was a flight commander and was posted to 64 Sqn in April 1942.

Mike J

You’re right of course, hence my use of approx.

Hopefully analysis of video and photographic evidence will give a more accurate height over the top of the manoeuvre.

Oh, and not forgetting 63 Squadron which carried out gunfire spotting for the Navy’s heavy guns on D-Day.

Probably the last time a Mark V fired its guns in anger was an aircraft of 276 (ASR) Squadron which attacked and sank a German midget submarine off Antwerp in March 1945.