Peter R. D. Scott (FN 61-66) writes:

Video - St Bees in the 1960s.

“I enjoyed watching Richard Taylor’s ‘video of St Bees in the 1960s’ and can throw some light on one brief clip in the film. During the sequence covering the 1964 CCF Inspection, there is a two-second shot of a light aircraft flying overhead (at 17:54 mins in the Vimeo video).

Roger Andrews (G 61-66) was flying the plane, and I was accompanying him.

Roger and I were both in the RAF section of the CCF. Roger was in training for a pilot’s licence and somebody decided that he could do a fly-past during the CCF Annual Inspection. On the morning of the inspection, we took a train to Carlisle and my mother took us on to the airport, where a plane and instructor had been booked.

We flew from Carlisle to St Bees, with Roger and the instructor in the front seats and me in the back. We reached St Bees a bit later than planned, and as soon as we arrived a flare was fired from the crease which was the signal to commence the fly-past. I don’t recall whether we flew round once or twice, but it was soon over and we flew back to Carlisle and returned to St Bees.

It’s the only time I remember there being such a fly-past on CCF Day (not counting Gus Walker’s arrival by helicopter a couple of years earlier).

‘A Grand Day out’.”

 

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