Mexico & Jamaica At 139 Jamaica Squadron we enjoyed two great detachments. The Squadron was going on a Goodwill visit to Mexico City, as guests of the Mexican Air Force. We were going via Goose [more…]
No.88 Squadron Goes To War In 1961 the Squadron went to war. General Kassim/Qassim the ruler of Iraq decided Kuwait was theirs, they may have been right, but Britain had a defence agreement with the [more…]
Shakespeare and the V-Bombers When the old 542 Squadron disbanded, the manning people at Bomber Command allowed us to go to a station of our choosing. This was to say you had a rough time [more…]
Editors note. There seemed to be a bit of a mix up with regards to who this account is about. It is my father’s memoirs, and not mine. A Blue Suit that fitted. I reached [more…]
Preface This is the story of my life in the Air Training Corps, the Royal Auxiliary Air Force and the Royal Air Force. The success I achieved in my later civilian career is due to [more…]
End of January I had a trip down to the Fleet Air Arm Museum at RNAS Yeovilton with a couple of fellow Postaliers. Don’t arrive after 11 am if you want breakfast in the cafeteria. [more…]
On 25th October 1994 29 year old US Navy Lieutenant Kara Hultgreen was killed whilst attempting to land on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Pacific Ocean. The case remains highly controversial to [more…]
I’m back again with the second part of this series about the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 – the Luftwaffe’s forgotten fighter. In the first part we covered the genesis of the Fw 190 and how the [more…]
The subject heading may read as though it is an introduction to an accountancy exam, but no, it is aversion therapy applied to an obsession, by licensed operators of machines such as the Dehavilland Chipmunk [more…]
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