Another Squadron Christmas Card...

[petermcleland]

This one is for Christmas 1953...

[Filonian]

Must bring the memories flooding back Peter.


Graham

[petermcleland]

Must bring the memories flooding back Peter.

Yes it does Graham...Most of them good but the odd bad one:-

There were many Air Displays and this is us landing in Box formation at the conclusion of one of our Formation Aerobatics displays. I am in the Box, flying just out of the jet wash (it just rumbles slightly on my canopy), and about to touch down. The other three then drop down together around me and we all then use twitches of brakes to maintain the box formation till turning off at the end of the runway. On this particular display as we were sitting on our parachutes and strapping them on, just before climbing into the cockpits, we had the unnerving experience of seeing two Harvards collide in the air and break up. The three occupants were killed, but the crowds were lucky as the wreckage missed them all. It was hard to put that vision to the back of ones mind and continue.

[Filonian]

I can quite imagine Peter. Let's put it down to the professionalism of your Squadron that you managed to continue.

Nice picture by the way.

Graham

[petermcleland]

Yes Graham, I don't have many pics of me "Box Landing" and that one is my favourite...I was 20 years old in that picture!