| These were great days Duncan for sheer variety of aircraft,Prestwick must have been an hive of activity in those days,all interesting real aeroplanes,problem is these days everything looks the same,the airliners are getting difficult to identify as they are all virtually the same shape,you saw the best machines no mistake as Prestwick must have been an important staging post.
Did you manage to take any pictures by any chance ? if so I would love to see a few of them.
Those Sabre F-86,were these the lease lend ones we had before the Hunter came into service by any chance ?
That must have been Elvis Pressley's one and only flying visit ? and Amy Johnson was flying an Airspeed Oxford which crashed in the Thames Estuary in foggy conditions,even the person who jumped in the water to try and save her was drowned as well,what a tragic flight,but in those days there were no radio aids and if you hit bad weather as she did then you were in trouble.
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