HAWKER TYPHOON 1941 Biggin Hill to Tangmere
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HAWKER TYPHOON 1941 Biggin Hill to Tangmere
After a Pint of Shandy at The George and Dragon Pub in the tiny village of Downe, Kent. Flight Lt. Gixer catches a lift to RAF Biggin Hill,Kent where he has bantered his way into a job ferrying a Brand new Hawker Typhoon 1B from RAF Biggin Hill to RAF TANGMERE for 486 Sqn. THE RNZAF KIWI PILOTS led by a certain famous young Group Captain. FYI Besides Aviation 2 miles from Biggin Hill is the Village of Downe in the rolling Kent countryside and former home of Charles Darwin and where he lived and worked for 40 years. The Survival of the Fittest aptly put. The local air raid siren wails out as FL Gixer pulls the Tiffie up into the cloudy skies over Biggin Hill with the sound of the roaring lusty napier engine penetrating the whole airframe and he sets course for Tangmere in West Sussex hoping he can blend in with the fields below. He tunes into the radio news and hears the voice of the Prime Minister cutting through the static. Midpoint along the route F.L.Gixo rendezvous with a single Spitfire Escort flying over from Tangmere piloted by FO TOBY (Welshy) Jones-Gwynn whos is always game for anything.Including a few not authorised skyrobatics. A Douglas Boston departs Tangmere for RAF Hawkinge. while the bombardier Cpl Fred Glum in the nose lightheartedly gripes to his FO Commander Branson Leight-Sanders about the cramped quarters. Meantime both airplanes safely arrive back at Tangmere RAF and the pilots rustle up a motorcycle and head for the Flaps and Rudder a local Tangmere Village Pub. FL Gixo breaths a sigh of relief because he hasn't had a day of flight training on the Typhoon.. amazed that he squeaked through without pranging his Kite .Crikey he says to himself you've bluffed thru another one when you love the Tiffie like I do Its all worth it. Ehhh!!! said PO Toby, have another pint boy no more daydreaming or they will have you flying Kipper Tins. Oh No I hear Hienkels Watch out better find an air raid shelter.!!!! Title should have been 1941 sorry
YouTube | September 16, 2008
