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1952 support of Royal Navy units south of Iceland for winter trials. in 1952
written by Alan Smith
 Ocean frozen over between Iceland and Greenland. Aircraft heaters unserviceable,kept alive by gunner distributing hot tea and hot soup almost unceasingly. Return to base with groundcrew and spare wheel and tyre with long period where time to North Coast of Ireland was longer than fuel availability. Obviously we made it !!During training Anson developed engine failure and Pilot made emergency landing without warning crew landed behind Rhodesian native plowing field who took one look snd disappeared into the Bundu Flying out of Stavanger Norway on NATO exercise forecast winds from meteorology :light and variable, wings expeienced 100mph fortunately flowing West away from mountains 14,000ft high while we operated at 800 feet!! |
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