FlyPast – August 2018

August 2018 FLYPAST 31

DE HAVILLAND VAMPIRE 100 YEARS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE

“I wasn’t overly disappointed at being allocated to the Harvard

squadron. I was to be married the following year and the accident squadron. I was to be married the following year and the accident

“I wasn’t overly disappointed at being allocated to the Harvard

squadron. I was to be married the following year and the accident

“I wasn’t overly disappointed at being allocated to the Harvard

rate on the Meteor at that time was alarming”

squadron. I was to be married the following year and the accident

rate on the Meteor at that time was alarming”

squadron. I was to be married the following year and the accident

Left

The author at the

controls of a 205

Squadron Sunderland.

Below

One of 205

Squadron’s

Sunderland GR.5s,

PP154, at rest.