Rocket Attack by Nicolas Trudgian (AP) AIT221 was the magnificent location for

was the magnificent location for the televison filming of Brideshead Revisited

being credited with an eventual 26 kills

25 that was housed inside began to burn and then blew up spectacularly

the RN shore base at Prestwick Airport

Rocket Attack by Nicolas Trudgian (AP) AIT221 was the magnificent location forNT263AP. Rocket Attack by Nicolas Trudgian. It required more than a little nerve to fly a fighter into the barrage of fire sprayed out by the gunners of a box of B17 bombers; it took even greater courage to do so in the rocket propelled Me163 Komet. With rocket science still in its infancy, these small aircraft were still in the experimental stage, and piloting what amounted to a flying bomb was in itself a perilous business, let alone flying them