Biggin Hill sunset

August 13th, 1940 pt 3 ( Late afternoon to dusk)

1700hrs: another sighting was made of a formation of enemy aircraft coming in across the Channel. This seemed to be made up of two separate formations. The larger coming across the coast near Dungeness that were identified as Ju87s from II/StG I, while a smaller group came in over Dover, these were identified as Ju87s of IV(St) LGI with both groups escorted by Me 109s.....

Stuka's invited to the party

An enjoyable first mission last night and a lot of Stukas to deal with. Flying from North Weald was interesting as was trying to find Maidstone. Chasing 70+ Stukas diving on an airfield was quite a sight.

"Splash One, request permission for fly-by?"

Heading for Maidstone

WB at Lympne, or is it Sheppey? :p

DAKKA-DAKKA-DAKKA

After the initial mission, night had started to fall. We had some difficulties taking off at Biggin, I swear there's a tripwire on the bottom runway, then heading west for Reading.

Biggin Hill sunset

Despite the frustrations of getting airborne, "Catseyes" Brigstock manages to find the incoming raiders after a long search over Reading.

Brigstock gives some good news

Having been unable to find Reading and only a rough approximation of where I was in the South of England, I began the search for a runway, anywhere. Splash had also begun to search for a landing site.

Finally, out of the dark, I spotted a larger looking field and descended. Fortunately it was a runway..... somewhere.

Head in the slipstream - where am I?

Miraculously we all survived and managed to land. WB and Brigstock at the same place. Even more amazing was 3 night kills for Brigstock.

WB looking for the runway... "Its behind you!!"

Whilst its not something I'd like to do every week, messing about in the dark was quite a good laugh. I'll get the searchlights working for next time. :)