Showing posts with label RAF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RAF. Show all posts

Friday, 18 September 2015

Where the idea for the Frome Spitfire Squadron came from..

Where the original idea for the Frome Spitfire Squadron came from was the odd report and not much photographic evidence that RAF recruits trained on bicycles with wings attached at the front. It may have been the Polish and Czechoslovakian pilots that trained more like this. This series of photos come from an article in life magazine, I assume from during he war, they look great, no prizes for which one is meant to be the enemy...










Tuesday, 25 August 2015

The Battle of Britain, Biggin Hill, The Hardest Day commemorations..


Squadron Leader Tony Wilkinson and his wife visiting Biggin Hill

'You dont get into a Spitfire, you pout it on..'
Hurricane starting up..
A local RAF living history squadron re-enacting a 'scramble'..
Mary Ellis who used to fly the Spits and Hurricanes from factories and between airfields, we salute you!