Former V-Force personnel sought
The Newark Air Museum is hosting its third V-Force reunion event on Saturday 28th April 2012. The event is being organised by the same team as the hugely successful events in 2004 and 2010; and it will follow the same basic format. In 2012 the gathering of former air and ground crew will commemorates 60 years since the formation of the V-Force; with a special reference back to the Falklands Campaign 30 years earlier in 1982.
As before the reunion side of the event is being organised by a team of former V-Force Officers aided by the Newark Air Museum; the overarching aim is to bring together as many former aircrew and ground support staff as possible. This team is keen to hear from any former personnel and full details of the activities planned and how to join the reunion can be gathered from their excellent Reunion website www.vforcereunion.co.uk.
The trustees of the Newark Air Museum are convinced that there are still more former V-Force personnel out there who might not be aware of this or previous reunions and they would like to try and contact them from across the globe and in particular in areas around the 10 designated V-Force Bases at:
RAF Coningsby
RAF Cottesmore
RAF Finningley
RAF Gaydon
RAF Honington
RAF Marham
RAF Scampton
RAF Waddington
RAF Wittering
RAF Wyton
Plus no V-Force event would be possible without also mentioning RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus and the various dispersal airfields around the world, too many in numbers to mention.
Additional contact work will be tried around the various manufacturing sites for the Vickers Valiant at Weybridge; Avro Vulcan at Woodford, Chadderton, Bracebridge Heath and Bitteswell; and the Handley Page Victor at Cricklewood and Radlett.
The Newark Air Museum is located in eastern Nottinghamshire close to the border with Lincolnshire, is the home to Vulcan XM594, which saw local service at both RAF Scampton and RAF Waddington, with 27, 101 and 44 Squadrons between 1963 and 1982.
The event is open to the public and it all looks set to be yet another tremendous weekend. Regular updates are now appearing museum website www.newarkairmuseum.org and we hope that you will be able to assist in this project.
All Photo Credits: Howard Heeley - Down To Earth Promotions
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