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Crash of Bristol 175 Britannia 101– 4th February 1954

15th January 2024 Going Postal 0

On the morning of February 4, 1954, G-ALRX took off from Filton on a test flight, with Captain A.J. ‘Bill’ Pegg at the controls. Flight Engineers for the trip were Ken Fitzgerald and Gareth Jones. [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Joining The Team

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November 1963 Last week I invited Puffins to guess, in unread comments below the unread article, what course my father’s cousin Anne may have plotted when, aged only 26, she lost both of her parents [more…]

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