\nThis is an outstanding story of coincidence, quick wit, skill,routine,
\nimprovisation and seized opportunity as a young RAF pilot flies an iconic
\nSpitfire in an aerial photographic mission over Everest at the end of World
\nWar Two. <\/p>\n
RAF Pilot Officer Neame trained to fly Spitfires for photographic
\nreconnaissance and, after a short time in Germany, was sent to pre-partition
\nIndia in 1946 to serve in the only photo-reconnaissance squadron in the whole
\nsub-continent.<\/p>\n
Getting lost and reaching home with just enough fuel for another seven and a
\nhalf minutes? Flying blind with an unserviceable radio through a monsoon
\nstorm? <\/p>\n
Making an unauthorised sortie into another country to come home with
\noutstanding pictures of the world’s greatest mountains – taken one-handed with
\nthe Leica jammed against the hood while the other hand grasped the stick and
\nkept the Spitfire level!<\/p>\n
With a foreword by Sir Martin Holdgate. Cover image by the author on his
\nphoto-reconnaissance flight in 1946: Mt. Everest from the North with part of
\nthe Spitfire’s wing in the lower right corner. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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