Oh poor Beags! My 1969 Flight Cadet visit to Shacks was a bit different. Britannia to Luqa , Four hrs famil. in a 203 Sqn Mk 3 Phase 3. 40 minutes in a 29 Sqn Lightning T5. Then 13 :50 Shack time including an hour or so right seat out on Ex. Dawn Patrol.Raced a USN Neptune, Low level over the U.S Fleet, a good look at the Sov. Fleet off Kythira (including the "Moskva"). Then half a day out at sea with the RAF Marine unit ( Maritime Griffons!) a superb visit to 13 Sqn Canberras' RIC ( a portent for the future!). Gutex's, Visits all round the island with 203 being superb hosts, before being poured back onto the Brit for the flight home.
I was bought up as a kid on a Coastal station (St.Eval) and later got a trip in Farnborough's T4 , in an airframe that was one of my father's previous engineering charges in the early 50's -when a certain Chris Ashworth was a cheeky young Fg.Offr.