Thursday March 20th -
Almost two
hours after leaving Tangmere the aircraft arrived without incident at Istres and immediately on alighting it was realised that the cold shores of the United Kingdom had been left behind for a warm breeze and shining sun promised well. Lunch at Istres consisted of an unmanageable Jerusalem artichoke, baked beans and sausage, steak and chips and an orange -
John Hext had ear trouble on the descen
t at Istres and over it was decided that he should change places with William Thomas. As John Abdul ate his lunch in leisurely fashion so the B'heaverly started its four motors and prepared to move away, this resulted in a chase but John was all right and made Luqa that evening.
The second leg for the Hunters was to Luqa and this time over a fairly considerable amount of oggin with only Corsica and Sicily to break the monotony and provide only one diversion between them. After the first hour a wee voice in the first flight piped up that it had transfer failure, the voice was identified as a two-
Outings to
Valetta were planned for the evening and most people managed to look around and see the place -
At ten on Friday morning the fifteen aircraft left Luqa in four sections at fifteen minute intervals for the for the long hop over interminable Mediterranean again to Nicosia. Nothing happened on the last leg and after two hours flying all aircraft landed in hot sunshine at Nicosia to be met by Tom Sheppard and Jack Gregg -
In the evening there was a film show, a regular Friday night feature, and most people attended, some of the ex-
Ch 2 -
