Month: June 2019

Berlin

Against all odds, we mustered fourteen aircraft for the penultimate flight of Berlin Airlift 70, our trip to Berlin. At ...

Candy Bomber

I wasn’t sure how Germany and Germans would react to a D-Day Squadron trying to morph into a recreation of ...

Duxford

Many people familiar with HFF also are familiar with Duxford, a WWII air field preserved in 1940s style. The American ...

D-Day Minus 1, The Channel Crossing

On the last day of the Duxford shows, we launched a streaming take-off into a formation of over twenty C-47s ...

D-Day

In the brief, the motorways were to close at 6 a.m. Driving in the dark, our motorway access point was ...

May 27

Some of the Squadron left for Duxford in acceptable conditions. We discussed the possibility but decided (a benevolent dictatorship) this ...

May 28

Today we visited the Marine Hotel on the grounds of Royal Troon Golf Club, a frequent host for the British ...

May 29

We have had our quiet time. Now to discover if we remember how to fly the DC-3. The weather is ...