October...

petermcleland · Post by **petermcleland** » 26 Feb 2007, 13:20

Found an interesting bit of paper today while rummaging through some archives:-

My logbook reveals that this was October 1960...I wonder if anyone could guess what it is all about :think:

Post by **DaveB** » 26 Feb 2007, 13:30

Is 1960 a bit early for your Hunter flights Peter and if so.. would they be Vampire flights with stage miles at the end?? Could be way, way off as I've not looked at a map

ATB

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petermcleland · Post by **petermcleland** » 26 Feb 2007, 13:34

As you say Dave...Way off! There is a "Red Herring" in there but also a giveaway clue

Post by **Garry Russell** » 26 Feb 2007, 13:35

I was thinking of some African independence issues :think: but only Nigeria had it that month..from the British that is

Garry

petermcleland · Post by **petermcleland** » 26 Feb 2007, 13:49

Garry Russell wrote:I was thinking of some African independence issues :think: but only Nigeria had it that month..from the British that is

Uhuru was some months away and Jomo Kenyatta was still in prison...but that is nothing to do with it

Post by **DaveB** » 26 Feb 2007, 14:21

Wasn't Zimbabwe still Rhodesia in 1960?? I was only 3-years-old so I can't really remember!!

ATB

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Post by **Garry Russell** » 26 Feb 2007, 14:25

I think that was 1965ish

Garry

Post by **DaveB** » 26 Feb 2007, 14:35

Well.. '65 was when Ian Smith stuck his fingers up but it remained Rhodesia until 1980. Dunno about red herrings, I'm seeing flying pink pigs too

ATB

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petermcleland · Post by **petermcleland** » 26 Feb 2007, 14:36

DaveB wrote:Wasn't Zimbabwe still Rhodesia in 1960?? I was only 3-years-old so I can't really remember!!

Yes it was, and Salisbury was the capital city...now Harare. The Zimbabwe Ruins mentioned are a mysterious group of rather extraordinary buildings that date to before white man in Africa :think:

Post by **Garry Russell** » 26 Feb 2007, 14:37

Rhodesia was independant a long time before it became Zimbabwe

Garry