Flight to 1939.

Flight to 1939.

Is time travel possible? There have been many cases reported over the years of

people inexplicably and unwillingly being transported either forward or backward

in time, these people have no idea how or why it has happened to them.

One such case is that of Air Marshal Sir Robert Victor Goddard, there are a few 

strange stories that surround Sir Goddard's life, there is the photograph taken in 

1919 of his squadron in which the face of Freddy Jackson appears looking over 

the shoulder of a man in the photograph, Freddy Jackson had died in an accident 

two days before the photograph was taken, there is also the incident for which the 

film "The night my number came up" is based on, this is the story of  a dream an 

officer had in which Goddard's plane crashes in Japan, the plane did indeed crash 

as the officer had dreamt. 

Picture of Freddy Jackson, taken 2 days after his death.

But in 1935 Sir Victor Goddard who at the time was a Wing Commander in the 

British Air Force was flying back to Andover , England from Edinburgh, Scotland, 

he decided to fly over an abandoned airfield at Drem which is not to far form Edinburgh. 

  

The old disused airfield looked battered, its runways were overgrown with foliage, the 

hangers were all falling down and once where planes stood ready for action was now a grazing area for cows.

Having flown over the old airbase Goddard continued on his way back to Andover, 

however not long into the continued flight he encountered a strange storm, he reported 

later that there were high winds and that the storm had strange brown-yellow clouds, the 

storm took him by surprise and he was unable avoid flying into the storm, he lost control 

of his plane which started to spiral towards the ground. Goddard managed to get the plane 

under control narrowly avoiding a crash. Once he got his bearings again he realised that 

they were heading back the way they had come and towards the Drem airfield again, as he approached the old airfield the storm suddenly vanished and Goddard's plane emerged into 

brilliant sunshine.  This time as they flew over the airfield, he noticed how different it 

looked, the hangers that moments before had been falling down now looked brand new, 

there were four planes parked on the ground, three of which he recognised as biplanes but 

the fourth was a monoplane, in 1935 the RAF had not yet acquired  a monoplane, the 

planes were all painted in an unfamiliar yellow, the runways were clear of foliage and he

noticed mechanics dressed in blue overalls walking around, He thought it strange that non 

of the people on the ground appeared to notice him flying over. 

Conscious of his fuel level he 

set course back to Andover, 

but once again encountered 

the strange storm this time 

though he was aware he was 

approaching it and was ready 

for it, he made it through the 

storm without losing control 

of the aircraft and made his 

way safely back to Andover.

So apart from the strange storm and the fact that Goddard witnessed the airfield in full 

operation only moments after he had seen it derelict, there are a few other things that 

stand out that make one wonder if Goddard was privilege to a glimpse of the future 

due to time travel.

It was not until 1939 that the RAF began to paint their planes yellow, acquired their 

first monoplane and kitted the ground mechanics out with blue uniforms.

Goddard had seen the airbase at Drem as it would be four years into the future, Could 

the strange storm somehow have transported Goddard's plane four years to the future 

and then transported him back to 1935?