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Posted: 26 Feb 2007, 13:20
by petermcleland
Found an interesting bit of paper today while rummaging through some archives:-

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

Posted: 26 Feb 2007, 13:30
by DaveB
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 :lol:

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Posted: 26 Feb 2007, 13:34
by petermcleland
:lol: :lol: As you say Dave...Way off! There is a "Red Herring" in there but also a giveaway clue :smile:

Posted: 26 Feb 2007, 13:35
by Garry Russell
I was thinking of some African independence issues :think: but only Nigeria had it that month..from the British that is :dunno:

Garry

Posted: 26 Feb 2007, 13:49
by petermcleland
Garry Russell wrote:I was thinking of some African independence issues :think: but only Nigeria had it that month..from the British that is :dunno:
Uhuru was some months away and Jomo Kenyatta was still in prison...but that is nothing to do with it :lol:

Posted: 26 Feb 2007, 14:21
by DaveB
Wasn't Zimbabwe still Rhodesia in 1960?? I was only 3-years-old so I can't really remember!! :lol:

ATB

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Posted: 26 Feb 2007, 14:25
by Garry Russell
I think that was 1965ish

Garry

Posted: 26 Feb 2007, 14:35
by DaveB
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 :lol:

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Posted: 26 Feb 2007, 14:36
by petermcleland
DaveB wrote:Wasn't Zimbabwe still Rhodesia in 1960?? I was only 3-years-old so I can't really remember!! :lol:
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:

Posted: 26 Feb 2007, 14:37
by Garry Russell
Rhodesia was independant a long time before it became Zimbabwe

Garry