Actually he was "Creamin' along in his PR9, having a fee-no-meenal time!".
Caught up with him again at Chivenor on the Hawk some 15 years later and he didn't look a day older!
From memory, our QFIs had flown the Belvedere, Beverley, Canberra B(I)8, Canberra PR9, Hunter, Seafire, Shackleton, Victor - as well as various Training Command aircraft from Tiger Moth to Vampire T11 to Varsity.
Their tales of Shacklebomber times were rather more interesting than most. Although one did admit that the reason he'd been posted to Chipmunks was after having slept through a V-force alert when his wife hadn't woken him up - and when he went into work the next day he found that all the aircraft had deployed to their Strike Force Dispersal aerodromes....
