Cabbage I was not offended , if there such a thing as the Sabre Dance then that’s all part of the learning curve about the aircraft of Wethersfield, so no problem here 🙂

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Robert good photos, the Model Builders at Sible Heading (Peter if your on here contact me please) have a collection of photos trying to capture all the F100s of the time need to see if they have these.

They make great models I need a 000 made for the museum ( in progress) not open to the public as yet!!

Stuart I have photos of all the crashes during 1944 when the 416th were there, One pilot Dave Andrews came to visit last year he is now 92, he flew behind 9699 on mission 10 and took that place when Bill Cramsie dropped from formation. I took Dave to Maddingley and Duxford, I have video of him when he zoomed of in his electric chair they give free use of at Duxford, towards the Doodlebug, he had never seen one yet flew 55 missions from Wethersfield bombing them, in the video he tells of the night a V1 exploded just short of the East end of the runway.

On the day we were at Duxford they were filming Monuments Men, It was surreal to see this D,Day Pilot drive through all the extras in WW2 American and British uniforms and the planes all in D Day markings, he attended the DDay ceremonies that week and last year in France, and was featured on USA Tv.

Have you been on the Base, you can visit the museum and base via me.

Col Toliver and his famous Triple Zilch, I hope to put a model of 000 in the museum. And display a drop tank from an F100.

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Cabbage I will post the last 6 pages of the transcript from the radio calls, it appears the cockpit filled with black oily smoke so there was a failure somewhere. The pilot survived but the Col it seems failed to eject in time. There is a memorial plaque at the road by the side of the field in Gosfield .

Still exceeded my upload quota, does that change or do I need to request more from a moderator,? I have RAF Wethersfield Aircraft Photos of the 1960s and 1944 to share. And much more on Project 9699 the wrecks on Buxey Sand.p

Got it 5mb available so deleted some above. Will leave transcript up for a week,

That fits looking a my dads service record he was on HMS Eagle twice May 1952 to May 1953 and Feb 1957 to June 1959.

Thanks for the info, I now recall when I was young looking at these and him telling me about the plane missing the cable.