Thank you for your input GASML, but I suspect that particular chapter of my flying career shall remain closed.

In the words of Voltaire- ‘Once, a philosopher. Twice, a pervert’.

Then again, never say never!

‘Big Bang Time Again’ ?

Can anyone be unaware of the humanitarian consequences of the two atomic bombs.

This is not a PC protest, or a prompt to relight the endless debate about the morality of the two attacks. Let us remember, though, that many thousands of non-combatants perished, most of them in great suffering, and avoid gleeful and flippant references to these events.

Fascinating, but so tragic too. Probably best to leave the remains alone , I would say.
Thanks for taking the trouble to write it up.

I would say for certain not Booker, but it does look to me like Fairoaks, or maybe, going a liitle further south, Wisley.

Exceptional circumstances, and an exceptional response.
If he had stopped when challenged, he might still be alive.

The only certainty about all of this is that we, the dumb public, know almost nothing of the circumstances, background, or facts associated with any of these events and so any comment is worthless speculation.

The death of any innocent person is very regrettable, the death of fifty even more so.

It looks as though the light was very intense, it gives the pictures a quality somehow different to that which we see here in the UK. Interesting to see the Cub with a squared off rear window- reckon it may have been an L4 once upon a time.

There can be few types in the preservation movement with a more troubled history than the Me/Bf 109 – HA 1112.

I think the first UK flyer (after BoB film) was Robs Lamplough’s G-BJZZ (later G-HUNN) and that ground-looped at Biggin in ’82. More recently, did not a Buchon depart the runway at Lydd, during the filming of ‘Pearl Harbor’?