Postby chris willis » April 26th, 2010, 5:11 pm
About 6 weeks ago i was contacted by the secretary Antony Knight of T.E.C.T. ( The Typhoon Entente Cordiale Trust ) This is pilots who flew Typhoons mainly over Normandy, and they asked if i would like to show my model at any future events of theirs, as you can imagine i was delighted to be asked. Yesterday was my first meet with them and lucky for me at North Weald, on my doorstep, Ken and i met up with them at 10 a.m. as they were setting up for doing autographs, and it was a great honour to meet these Pilots we could have listened to them all day but they had to meet the general public for signing, we heard of how they flew, how they fired rockets, some did bomb runs only, and on hard ground flying at 15 feet the bomb would bounce and be behind their tailplane with a 8 second fuse, absolute heroes, then we spoke with the famous Flt Lt David Ince, he led low level sorties into Normandy with photo re-conesense, and early napalm with 193 and 257 Sqn, once the Napalm canisters dropped they tumbled and exploded and at 15ft the flames were chasing up their wings, i got all the pilots to sign under my tailplane, it was a great Honour to meet these Heroes and i am pleased to be a part of this.
If you google David Ince Typhoon pilot you will find all about him, well worth reading, David has just released a new book called Brotherhood of the Sky's which can be found on Amazon, the book has many pictures of him with his Tiffy and is detailed of his events, each book sold money goes to their charity to aid the upkeep of the Typhoon monument in Normandy where many of these brave pilots Died, or if you would like to donate please send me a cheque made payable to T.E.C.T. and i shall pass it on.
An Inspiring Day
Chris
