Originally Posted by
teeteringhead
He was - flew Meteors; as did Freddy Forsyth (and just about everybody in those days I think)
William Woolard, he of Tomorrow's World and Top Gear fame, was I believe a national service pilot, though I stand to be corrected. His Wikipedia page said he was born in 1939, yet he gave an 'eyewitness' account of a meatbox crash in 1952 on 207 AFS at Full Sutton, that would have made him about 13! It's either badly written or his birthday is wrong.