Teeters,
Apols for the delay in responding to your comment about NOT being posted to Lightnings. The new Pprune gizmos do not make allowance for dinosaur people. I made a Quick Reply and it seems has disappeared into the blue.
My comment was along the lines of you, as a Gentleman Aviator, could not have been seen clambering up the outside of such an ugly flying machine as a Lightning. You had spent a lot of time clambering up the outside of a Wessex. You had earned your tattoo.
Also, you were too tall. We Hunter pilots regarded Lightning Pilots as "The League of Little Men". I seem to recall one or more articles on the subject in Air Clues of long ago.