IE when the Me110s came up under lets say a bomber who was making gentle side to side movements along the track so as not to be in a straight flight path the Me110 night fighter would mimic the side to side motion and once he had or flow and ebb and once he had got the flow and ebb let go with his upward facing gun.
As massive blind spot on a lot of RAF bombers.
From memory I think they had 3 days to recover any lost crew members but if just the aircraft as long as it took to pick up the lumps they could get and fill the hole in, maybe just the day at most.
I would think a lot of non aviation minded people got something out of the tour, I did see the Vulcan a couple of times in the distance, one from the garden as she descended to go to the N/E of the Stansted TMZ and that was a magical to see as not expected.
Yes Alan I did know you meant Tilbury fort, most people do not realise there are two, one with an aviation museum and one without.
It all went a bit Channel 5,
if he does this, that may go wrong
if he does that this may fail
if he goes for a wee, he may get a damp patch.
FFS we are not kids, we do not need created drama, we hear 1% of what could go wrong but not the instead of the 99% that goes right each and every day and normally 100% for these guys.
Loved the flying, professionals to a man, I know now I am getting old, some do not look old enough to fly a car let alone drive a Hawk !
I was in two minds whether to go to NW or not, but chose Tilbury. Quite busy there too.
Hi Alan, I did think of going to Coalhouse Fort but thought it may just be to far east of the track along with maybe the museum being open which I have not been to in years as I was told a lot of Whitley has gone on display also, North Weald won as more of a dead cert for seeing her.
Went to North Weald, masses gathering, one flight South to north pull up then a descending turn to the east before departing south, glad I went, bummer to get back out so just hung around until the crowds had departed.
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