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Aviation History
1970
1970 - 0191.PDF
LEAVING BRIZE NORTON after lunch on a Saturday, you are amongst the bright flowers and green • vegetation of Singapore in comfortable time for dinner on Sunday evening. Alternatively, leav ing Singapore on a Friday evening you are back in Oxfordshire (with the 6^hr gain in time flying westwards) by mid-morning on the Saturday. Such is the speed of the RAF transport service between the United Kingdom and the Far East with the British Aircraft Corporation VClOs of Air Support Command. The sensation of travelling by these fast rear- engined jet aircraft is one which creates in the minds of the passengers a blurred impression of time, climates, sleeping and waking, a sort of out- of-this-world commuting between areas of the globe which are as far apart in tradition, vegeta tion and climate as they are in actual mileage. Brize Norton, home base of the VClOs, is about as English as anywhere could be: a former United States Air Force base, now re-Anglicised, set in a countryside of pale brown earth, stone walls and tawny Cotswold stone houses. The experience •Deputy publicity manager, BAC Weybridge division. FAR EAST COMMUTER By NORMAN BARFIEL.O* and HUMPHREY WYNN
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