My father was a civilian Storeman at RAF Henlow in the 1930s when my mother was a Parachute Inspector at Irvins. MWe moved to Woodley in 1939 were my father was storeman at 98 Stores? RAF. In 1941 we moved to London where my father was at napiers and my mother was an inspector of Mosquito wiring at Earls Court. My love of all things aircraft meant that I volunteeered for 12 years service.in 1948.
I still find that I have to watch every aircraft that flies over possibly because of the following incident.Peterauliff (talk) 11:06, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
On Wednesday 7 July 1948 a Sea Mosquito piloted by Squadron Leader David Robertson DFC took off at 3pm. He held his course exactly in line with the runway for about ten minutes while he climbed to about 10000 feet. At this point he levelled out and started a series of aerobatics around the broken cloud. He was looping and rolling to give his passenger Flight Lieutenant Antony Nicols an exciting ride. Just before 3:30 the pilot put the aircraft into a power dive from about 10000 feet down to about 250 feet and pulling out about 1000 yards short of the Eastern end of the runway. The aircraft then started to drop the port wing as if to do a Victory Roll. When the wing was pointing at the ground the port navigation light collapsed and the sudden inrush of air tore off the wing tip. The rest of the wing back to the engine then split into top and bottom sections and tore off back to the port engine. A few seconds later the now inverted aircraft struck the ground opposite the control tower with explosive force. (Observed by the author 1921259 a FME U/T at Locking from a position 1000 yards East of the runway). Little remained of the aircraft and the remains of the two officers were removed to Locking Camp (No 5 School of Technical Training) before being buried.----