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After returning late from a strafing run near Arras on 22 May 1940, F/O Roderick MS "Roddie" Rayner (pictured) and F/O Richard Lindsay "Dick" Glyde of No 87 Squadron RAF found their base at Merville in disarray. Carrying only what could be put in the plane, they evacuated to RAF Debden.

 
MIflyer said:
The one guy known to have done that made it back to his carrier. IT DID WORK.
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How could you know that?
That one guy that tried it and survived, has he ever said no one else tried it ?
I would think he would have been pretty busy at the time.
Do you think he had the spare time to keep a close watch on the others, scattered as they were.
The others that didn't survive to return may have tried to fly out of trim and got shot down anyway, there's just no way to know.
 
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Before going to Hawaii, she taught at a school in Ft. Collins in the CPTP program. My Luscombe was there at that time. Some day I hope to be able to find logs or pictures that put her in the cockpit of my plane.
 
I met George Gay at a CAF airshow table selling his book. He was telling us some details of the event. He said he did not remember being afraid until he was in the water between Japanese ships. He was afraid they would run him down while maneuvering. He did not remember anyone on board the Japanese ships noticing him.
 
Spitfire Mark.1A, P9374 on the beach of Calais sometime soon after 24 May 1940. It went down
on 24 May 1940. F/O Peter Cazenove survived the crash-landing and ultimately became a POW.
The plane was buried under the sand shortly after this shot for decades, but emerged in 1980
and has been restored. The plane is flyable and is at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford.

 
syscom3 said:
Royal Air Force men train in an American Harvard I aircraft, 23rd May 1940

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That early Harvard is actually a North American Aviation NA-16 export variant with fabric covered steel tube fuselage ... a later model with retractable gear.
A whole lot of variations involving fuselage, engine, cockpit, control surfaces and landing gear configurations, including the moderately successful single seat Wirraway fighter were delivered world wide.
With hundreds of NA-16/BT-9/NJ-1 versions being built before the standardized T-6/SNJ, I'd suspect many maintenance/supply officers considered "North American" to be a favorite curse word.
 
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