Originally Posted by
Union Jack
Surely the initial drift was caused by Archimedes, principally.....
Jack
Oh, gee, thanks. I wasn't talking about Jackson and while I can see where SLXOwft was coming from, I was thinking about an anecdote in one of the more recent books (not this one, but Peter Caygill's
Jet Jockeys and that genre of histories of the RAF during the Cold War era).
Brakedwell, thanks - I was posting on my phone, and it has the annoying habit of putting all the posts on a single page and refusing to get back to the top, so I'd misremembered the OP's date for Chris Baker leaving the service to 1958/59, which would've fitted Sandys better. Although I've seen some archival material which points to some effects - notably the disbandment of the RAuxAF squadrons coming about in short order, the full effects took time to work their way through - as you'll know rather better than I do!