Re: Handley Page Hastings Aircraft -- The Royal Air Force

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Date Posted: 12/09/03 12:17:52
Author: Jim Baker
Subject: Re: Handley Page Hastings Aircraft
In reply to: John 'Gary' Cooper 's message, "Handley Page Hastings Aircraft" on 9/02/03 20:50:27

No need to SHOUT! I've only been flying in one of these for 8 hours and what about the Khasi, that was something different. Time for a smoke methinks. Today these fliers don't know how we all roughed it.

1066 and all that, meaning Hastings

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[> Re: Handley Page Hastings Aircraft -- John Cooper, 5/11/03 21:07:03

'Splashdown in the Med TG613' 22nd July 1953 read about this on the main header of website

Russell Wright the son of Flight Lietenant J C Wright has made contact to inform me that his father (the pilot of TG613) was awarded the Air Force Cross (AFC) in the New Years Honours Awards of 1954.

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[> [> Re: Handley Page Hastings Aircraft -- John Cooper, 6/11/03 9:54:57

From Russell Wright son of a Hastings pilot

There is another entry in his log regarding WJ 336 "Extremely good airmanship in landing Hastings WJ336 on three engines with a piece of cowling embedded in the tail plane. Necessitating an approach speed of 150kts at a poorly illuminated airfield at dusk on 7th Sept 1952"

I wonder what happened to the engine erk after this episode?

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