three photos via Barry Davidson. Hawk XX232 passes the runway caravan, XX157 passes the current tower and
4FTS Folland Gnat XP516 in front of the previous tower in 1977.
and another shot of a 4FTS Gnat XS106/36
HAWK ZKO26 over RAF Valley
USAAF operations at the WW2 RAF Valley Ferry Terminal 1943-45. This handled American aircraft arriving from transatlantic flights and on European sorties and in 1945 their return to the USA.
For Air Training Corps summer camp in 1979 at Valley, I had the pleasure of sampling a back seat flight in a Hawk in a sortie where the instructor would normally fly solo accompanied by two student pilots in separate aircraft. As we strapped in, one of the other people helping me announced ‘command eject off’. This meant that if I inadvertantly pulled the ejector seat handle, only I would be ejected and the instructor would stay put!! It was a superb flight carried out in almost total radio silence, the first part consisted of close formation flying by the students with formation changes carried out by hand signals by the instructor; this was followed by a tailchase where I found out about the capabilites of a ‘g’ suit as we operated between +5.5g and -2.5g. It was rather outside the realm of being a mere civil ATCO but was very interesting.
three photos via Barry Davidson. Hawk XX232 passes the runway caravan, XX157 passes the current tower and
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For Air Training Corps summer camp in 1979 at Valley, I had the pleasure of sampling a back seat flight in a Hawk in a sortie where the instructor would normally fly solo accompanied by two student pilots in separate aircraft. As we strapped in, one of the other people helping me announced ‘command eject off’. This meant that if I inadvertantly pulled the ejector seat handle, only I would be ejected and the instructor would stay put!! It was a superb flight carried out in almost total radio silence, the first part consisted of close formation flying by the students with formation changes carried out by hand signals by the instructor; this was followed by a tailchase where I found out about the capabilites of a ‘g’ suit as we operated between +5.5g and -2.5g. It was rather outside the realm of being a mere civil ATCO but was very interesting.
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