Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 20, 2018 13:20:55 GMT 12
I have had the following email from Helen McFarlane
Naturally I was happy to put the photos up here. So here they are, with Helen's captions:
Shoreham Lifeboat crew and their NZ $6mil boat.
Myself in cockpit.
Matt, BBC camerman who accompanied us.
Wreath from Goldfish club
On board. My husband Bruce, myself and Frank James ex RAF representing the Goldfish Club
The wonderful boatcrew who took us out
Aircraft at Goodwood aerodrome, this one had just flown.
By coincidence they were just lowering the NZ flag at Tangmere as we arrived.
The Meteor Jet similar to one my father was test flying.
Dave,
Not sure if you or your readers on WONZ are interested at all but I have just returned from Europe and UK yesterday. My journey was to put my mothers ashes, as she wished, with my father in the English Channel.
My father P.O. H.C. Saward was with RNZAF 486 and RAF. 222 amongst others. He was testing a Meteor Jet MkVI when there was a malfunction and the craft went into the water off Lancing near Bognor Regis. I contacted the Shoreham Lifeboat Stn who had searched for him in 1948 and they took me, my husband and Frank James RAF a former Nimrod pilot out to the approx area. My father was a member of the ‘Goldfish Club’ (pilots who ditch in the sea) and they sent a wreath also.
As it is the 100th anniversay of the RAF in UK they were very interested in what I was doing, i was interviewed by BBC for a radio segment, the BBC sent a cameraman who filmed on board the lifeboat the whole time and interviewed myself and Frank afterwards. The programme was shown on BBC news a couple of wks ago and there is to be an article in a local Shoreham newspaper this thursday.
If you are interested i can send you pics and/or the BBC segment as there is quite a bit about my father on it. I also went to Tangmere Airport to see the Meteor they have there.
Cheers
Helen McFarlane (nee Saward)
Christchurch
Not sure if you or your readers on WONZ are interested at all but I have just returned from Europe and UK yesterday. My journey was to put my mothers ashes, as she wished, with my father in the English Channel.
My father P.O. H.C. Saward was with RNZAF 486 and RAF. 222 amongst others. He was testing a Meteor Jet MkVI when there was a malfunction and the craft went into the water off Lancing near Bognor Regis. I contacted the Shoreham Lifeboat Stn who had searched for him in 1948 and they took me, my husband and Frank James RAF a former Nimrod pilot out to the approx area. My father was a member of the ‘Goldfish Club’ (pilots who ditch in the sea) and they sent a wreath also.
As it is the 100th anniversay of the RAF in UK they were very interested in what I was doing, i was interviewed by BBC for a radio segment, the BBC sent a cameraman who filmed on board the lifeboat the whole time and interviewed myself and Frank afterwards. The programme was shown on BBC news a couple of wks ago and there is to be an article in a local Shoreham newspaper this thursday.
If you are interested i can send you pics and/or the BBC segment as there is quite a bit about my father on it. I also went to Tangmere Airport to see the Meteor they have there.
Cheers
Helen McFarlane (nee Saward)
Christchurch
Naturally I was happy to put the photos up here. So here they are, with Helen's captions:
Shoreham Lifeboat crew and their NZ $6mil boat.
Myself in cockpit.
Matt, BBC camerman who accompanied us.
Wreath from Goldfish club
On board. My husband Bruce, myself and Frank James ex RAF representing the Goldfish Club
The wonderful boatcrew who took us out
Aircraft at Goodwood aerodrome, this one had just flown.
By coincidence they were just lowering the NZ flag at Tangmere as we arrived.
The Meteor Jet similar to one my father was test flying.
