Monday 20th January -
Altogether a very interesting and absorbing week with many things to influence the week's flying and activities. The main thing which had everyone keen to last degree and raring to go was the death-
air to ground firing carried out at Manhood range under the watchful eyes of one fishhead and one GD gentleman called Bill Sykes. The firing started on Monday when Ian Craig and Roy King twirled around giving dual demonstrations and some folk got away in swept wing machines; a party went to the range in the morning so that they could assess angle of dive, get a general idea of what happened when the range was in session and drink the range officer's tea. The remainder of Monday was spent on the eternal cine-
With most of the Country under snow it was fortunate that on Tuesday morning Tangmere showed only a very slight trace and no signs of any to follow. A glorious morning but with the state of diversion airfields so poor that flying was held up for two hours at the start and then only allowed in the immediate vicinity of the airfield, this luckily 
was enough to permit the range firing to be carried out. Perhaps it would have been better looking back on Tuesday had someone suggested a morning's coffee in Chichester; it all started first thing when John Barwell mounted a T11 Vampire and set out to test the braking action on the runway. He taxied up and down braking here and there as was his fancy and reported that the braking action was perfectly normal and rolled to an undignified standstill fifty yards further on in the overshoot.
And then the Hunters got airborne and performed on the range where with a break-
of his runs the ground started throwing things back. The net result of this was a talk by 'Sir' on Not Doing Wrong Things and the alteration of the break-
By eleven on Wednesday a shaky diversion or two were available and the firing was on but this time without incident, later in the day there were a few cine sorties at thirty thousand feet and aviation-
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