…… it was all the serviceable Hunters that Chivenor's Eng Wing, under Don Stewart, could muster.
Nigel's briefing the day before was that they were to fly at low level and visit as many holiday beaches as they could find in Devon and Cornwall. One of the questions suggested that Nigel hadn't covered emergencies adequately, which caused him to glower around the room and comment on the number of hours on fighters and on Hunters gathered in the room, and if the questioner didn't feel man enough to join in then he need not. One pilot asked what was the minimum altitude authorized.
"Next question,” said Nigel.
Dave Stanley and I were students on 234 at the time, and we remember watching the take-
I recall it being a calm summer's day using runway 27, and watching the rather scary wing-
Nigel's RT call was, "Don't just sit there, go and get another one."
Roger remembers the Hunters arriving in low-
The Station Commander there, still of Coastal Command, was in the tower, and asked if this was how the recently formed Strike Command's Hunters normally arrived. He was assured that this was indeed SOP -
We enjoyed that detachment, different from North Devon, but still a delight.
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