Trip to RAF Brize Norton with 100 yr old Ex WO in an R44

[topsparks]

Yes despite flying in an R44 you will pleased to hear we are all still alive!



Visit to 216 SQN









Lunch at the Officers Mess

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[Fat Albert]

Nice one, always nice to get Vets back in the air, I nhad the priviledge of doing project propellor a couple of years back and flew a Liberator Flight Engineer and a Camberra CFI (Malaya Veteran) into Old Warden

[perdu]

Silly of me I know but as I progressed down the photostory I just had to give a spontaneous handclap to Brize's Officer's Mess for looking after him so well...

top guys the RAF!

[PaulG40]

Good to see he enjoyed himself there!


The Skinny head younger admin officer (flying officer) sat on the table with him is one of our lads from my place who used to be a Avionics techie SAC (T)! lol.

[deviant]

Would be interested to read any interesting stories these chaps might have passed on!

[Smiler.]

topsparks said:

Blimey, those R44's are like the Tardis inside

Which route did you fly into BN?

I've seen a few small helicopters buzzing over the office recently.

[topsparks]

L 1011 ex Pan Am,we routed from Iver Heath straight into Brize,over the Chiltons,past mini factory over Oxford town centre landed runway 26 if I remember currectly ,about 20 min flight,best I did Brize pre Gatso was 45 min in RS Turbo!!!,have more pics on Facebook.

[Pot Bellied Fool]

deviant said:

Would be interested to read any interesting stories these chaps might have passed on!

Not these chaps from the OP but we've just had a contribution to the Lancaster site I admin (quite a fascinating story about the fate of one Lancaster & her crew). One of the crew members was on a second dickie familiarisation trip prior to rejoining his own crew but perished in the crash.

But now one of his original crew has got in touch, in his 90's and was made up to find the site. He's contributed some anecdotes of his time in the RCAF. Flying Officer James H Boyle RCAF

[Aizle]

Smiler. said:

topsparks said:

Blimey, those R44's are like the Tardis inside

Beat me to it

[topsparks]

It was a barsard to fly home with no collective!

[topsparks]

Just got a pic from Brize

[Mr Dave]

Hope I look that healthy when im 100!

Well done, great thing to do and im sure they really appreciated it.

[topsparks]

Just had the sad news from Arthur's wife that he passed away on the 2nd Jan after a short illness,so glad we gave him a good 100th birthday.

[Aizle]

RIP Sir.

Great to hear you gave him a good send off, in that sense.

[captainflynn23]

Wonderful photos and i'm glad you was able to do that for him. So sad to hear of his passing.

I remember back in around 2004 when my old flying instructor introduced me to his brother that was a Lancaster bomber pilot during WW2. I remember him telling me the story of how he got called up from flying sunderlands to go on to the Lancaster with coastal command. His eyes lit up while telling the story as if he was re-living it all over again.

[perdu]

RIP

A moving end to a great gift to the chap

100! I sometimes wonder if I'll get up to 3 score and ten

Thank you for what you did for a gentleman hero

well done