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Old 08-01-2009, 02:38 AM
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Originally Posted by juz1 View Post
very much post war..he navigated Avro Shackletons out of Malta (RAF Luqa I think) late 50s early 60s...I guess looking for subs. They're in the process of restoring one at duxford (which I had to see one more time before emigrating)

but he used to tell me about running away from home as a kid to watch the Gloster Meteors train.

I'm trying to get my mum to digitise a photo of him beside a Jet provost trainer but she's no Bill Gates...
ahhh i see. i wish i knew stuff like that but all i know is of one of my grandads fought at normandy. the only real connection to aircraft that i know of was another of my grandads was an artist and painted a spitfire and then presented it to RJ Mitchell himself, never been able to locate the painting though
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