Video showing M18-3 clip from Brian Iles's film of his return flight from RAF Jever to Bulawayo, Africa in his Miles M-18 light aircraft on Tuesday 20th July 1954. This clip probably shows them on their 3 hour 40 minute flight from Brindisi to Athens on Friday 23rd July 1954. This was one of their longest legs over water. They had flown down to Brindisi from Rome the previous afternoon in a 2 hour 45 minute flight. The clip begins with Sandy preparing his maps on the wing, then checking the engine followed by Brian also working on the engine. Then they are airborne by 0700 hours and seen leaving land probably somewhere near one of the headlands South of Otranto as this would have been the shortest crossing of the Adriatic Sea/Ionian Sea in the Straits of Otranto to the Greek islands off Albania. Next they are seen flying down the rugged coastline of the Greek Islands or the Greek mainland. Does anyone know the area well enough to identify any of the locations? Finally they are seen orbiting the Parthenon in Athens and then on the approach to Athens Airport landing at 1040 hours in the morning.
There is no sound with this clip. This clip runs for 55 secs.