WV482 - 2nd March 1956 - Piston Provost first solo - 20 minutes at RAF High Ercall Shropshire, the satellite airfield for RAF Ternhill. I still remember it well, not my best landing, but very satisfying for an eighteen year old learner and safe enough after exactly 10 hours dual.
My instructor had been on Spitfires during the war and was the son of a local farmer from Wem, Shropshire. He was also officer in charge of the station pig farm and sometimes flew in wellies that stank of pigs! During the course we would check the fencing etc on his farm at Wem on dual sorties.
WF795 - 16 August 1958 - Meteor VII first solo at RAF Nicosia when a Hastings second pilot.. No dual at all, only 3 rides in the back of a 216 Sqn T7 at Lyneham with a 216 Sqn second pilot where I got no poling at all! Then I got to play with the Levant Com Sqn Meteor VIII's!
Happy days that seem a long time ago now.
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