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Preparation for the APG meetup at Farnborough with a little history of the area.
Title image The Posting House Tumbledown Dick, a watercolour of the pub painted in 1782 by Thomas Rowlandson. Creative commons image licence.
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Years before Sully ditched his A320 in the Hudson, Captain Ogg performed a similar feat in his Pan Am Stratocruiser in the open ocean between Honolulu and San Francisco. A remarkable story.
Images by William Simpson, US Coast Guard – US Coast Guard Photo, Public Domain.
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Some history of Farnborough prior to the 2016 Meetup, including the delightful story of Miss Tilly’s Orifice!
Title image by JAW at English Wikipedia – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
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The first men to land at Normandy on D Day flew in Horsa gliders as part of a daring raid to capture a bridge. This is the remarkable story of their mission.
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A disgruntled RAF officer flys his Hunter up the Thames and round Parliament before finishing up with a spectacular stunt.
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The story of the quiet hero of a Sabena DC4 crash in a remote part of Newfoundland. US Army Doctor Sam Martin organised one of the first ever helicopter rescues and treated the injured survivors in the most dire of circumstances.
