When was that?…the 1961 Berlin Wall crisis? great photo!

Do you have any details of where your father-in-law was stationed? There was also a Horseshoe ‘branch’ to West Africa with some flying boat activity.

Now SeaDog has confirmed that the P40 is effectively’ in the bag’ can we discuss how it should be displayed on arrival at the RAFM….I’m a fan of it being displayed ‘as found’ ….in the manner of the museums Halifax
….lets sleep on it… 🙂

Photographs and footplate memories of the funeral train’s journey here http://svsfilm.com/nineelms/wcf.htm

Waterloo Clapham Junction Putney Richmond Whitton Feltham Staines Virginia Water Reading Oxford Hanborough Station( for Bladon)

also http://www.nrm.org.uk/PlanaVisit/Events/churchill/state-funeral.aspx

More feedback on the 727 article in Aeroplane Monthly Jan 2015..
With the Da Nang evacuation and the incidents appended below it could be considered battle hardened

In a failed coup d’etat in 1972, a Royal Air Maroc 727 carrying King Hassan II survived a shoot-down attempt by 4 Moroccan Air Force F-5s though the 727 was riddled with some 180 holes and lost two engines and hydraulics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenitra_Air_Base
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r101:S04AU9-B1191:

And a TWA 727 near Greece survived a bomb which blew a large hole in the fuselage
http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/42-28809892/bomb-explosion-on-twa-flight
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1986/Boeing-727s-Pretty-Tough-Birds-Airliner-s-Maker-Says-With-PM-Plane-Bomb-Bjt/id-79c3c81d0bb2ccdcfb7c7e34375d93bb

Mexicana had -200s with JATO bottles…not sure how long they were used for

I have a notion it was considered (perhaps briefly) for COD on the Super Carriers…as was the Fokker/Fairchild F-28 I think.

Katrina Leskanich (Katrina and the Waves) grew up on the base at Mildenhall in the 70s and by chance (I think) mentioned it on the Sara Cox R2 programme last Sunday (last half-hour?) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04x0l77

She followed in the traditional of other Air Force kids (genii?) such as Frank Zappa (think he called them Air Force brats, and inferred that the constant moving round the world and separateness from where they lived gave them something special)

Finally, in this musical interlude, I was amused to hear Georgie Fame reel off a list of British USAF bases he used to tour in the Sixties as part a musical monologue he sings in his current touring show. He always describes the US servicemen who used to come into Soho’s Flamingo Club to hear him as ‘G.I’s’ but I think they were mainly Air Force.