“Rolling down runway 16 at Sydney airport, in the British Airways 747, it was an adventure that I had absolutely no idea of where it might lead with all of a couple of thousand dollars in the pocket and one telephone number in London.”
Checking in with the Prime Minister
Out at Stapleford Airfield in Essex, the Instrument Rating Apache aircraft.
Hardly a sleek machine, but it did the job!
(To put the ocassion in a time perspective, the staff at Thuston’s and I watched on a black and white TV set in the building behind, the epic match of Arther Ashe and Jimmy Conners in the final at Wimbeldon in 1975.)
Stanstead Runway 22
The make-or-break runway
(Photo by courtesy of Mr. Richard E Flagg of abct.org.uk)
And the final result…………………
(issued the day the Generals took over)
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