Originally Posted by
stac52
Does anyone remember a flying instructor at the Luton School of Flying named Johnnie Johnson? I completed a RAF flying scholarship at the school in 1971 and Johnnie was my main instructor. I have since wondered and am intrigued to know, whether it was the WW2 fighter ace of the same name. His age would have been about right, he smoked a pipe, always wore a suit and from memory looked similar to photographs of JEJ. He also struck me as exceptional in many ways.
I knew Johnnie Johnson when he was AOC at Aden In 1964. I flew him to Nairobi in an Argosy for an annual inspection and did not see him smoke a pipe. He left the the RAF in 1965 and was involved with housing plus he was the Lord Lieutenant of Leicester, I think. I am sure he was not your instructor.