One of the things about my log book that during the airdrop courses I always logged the student captain as 'pilot'. So the first time Ed appears it is on Dec 4 1974 when the airdrop training empire was then called TSTS (it went through several names !) We flew in XV 210 to Tengah and back via the usual places.
I do recall him enthralling us all with tales of flying the Tempest in Egypt and especially of the day one of their a/c was shot down.