On 28th February Frank’s daughter, Angela Bailey, returned to Kingston to give the second part of her talk on Frank’s Career. Your Editor was not able to attend (see Editorial) so he referred to the Association Youtube video library. Sadly and unusually the quality of the sound recording was poor and there were some gaps. Also the visual images consisting mainly of pages copied from magazine articles, press cuttings, photographs both professional and family, letters and log book entries and were very detailed in nature and difficult to summarise. Consequently I decided that I would not be able to produce an accurate report doing justice to the amazing content. I recommend that you have a go at interpreting the Youtube record available at http://easyurl.cc/HAVideoLibrary.
    Frank’s flying activities in this period were largely concerned with Tempest, Fury and Sea Fury, Sea Hawk and Hunter production and experimental flight testing, air racing, aircraft deliveries to overseas customers, point-to-point records, air shows and potential customer demonstrations interspersed with a few crashes due to technical failures. One of these was at Ford with a flamed-out engine, undercarriage up and no flaps, touching down at 200 kn followed by 19 bounces during which Frank became unconscious. His Hunter broke up and ran off the runway colliding with some caravans. Frank survived in his detached cockpit. He also took part in the film ‘Angels One-five’ flying Hurricane PZ865, ‘The Last of the Many’.