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Category: De Havilland

Hitching a ride on a Jetstream

October 14, 2020

In the early 1980’s I was a Masters Student at what was then Cranfield Institute of Technology. The campus was on the site of a former RAF airfield and I was studying Bio-Aeronautics with the International Centre for the Application of Pesticides (ICAP) attached to the College of Aeronautics. As part of the course we … More Hitching a ride on a Jetstream

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Milk run over the Eder Dam

July 13, 2020

Whilst researching the Dambuster attack on the Eder Dam I came across an interesting snippet of history. It was told to me by my sister’s friend G.C. who was in the RAF in the early 50s. In 1952 G.C. was based in Germany at RAF Wahn which is now the modern day Cologne Bonn International … More Milk run over the Eder Dam

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Recent Posts

  • Hitching a ride on a Jetstream
  • Milk run over the Eder Dam
  • Polish 2nd Corps Cine films from the 1960s
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  • What happened to the Lancasters used on the Dambuster Raid?
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  • Notifications
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  • Useful Resources for Polish 2 Corps information
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  • Mach Loop – Low flying jets at their very best
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  • What is Honey?
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UPCOMING EVENTS

  • TALK: High Peak Dambusters January 26, 2021 at 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Denton, UK Victoria Park Community Centrehttps://www.dentonlocalhistorysociety.co.uk/events.html
  • TALK: The little known history of the Poles from Eastern Poland February 10, 2021 Mellor Parish and Conference Centre, Church Rd, Mellor, Stockport SK6 5LX, UK
  • TALK: The High Peak Dambusters April 6, 2021 at 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Furness Vale, High Peak SK23, UK http://furnesshistory.blogspot.com/
  • TALK: The little known history of the Poles from Eastern Poland September 8, 2021 at 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Mellor Parish and Conference Centre, Church Rd, Mellor, Stockport SK6 5LX, UK https://mellorchurch.org/parish-centre/current-groups/

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