Apart from a quick flight in a Bulldog for air experience at Cosford in 1980, the flight that inspired me to want to be aircrew was when I was invited to the flight deck of an Andover to observe the approach into TTTE Cottesmore in 1982. We had been on det to Machrihanish and we flew there and back in an Andover.
On the approach, long and short finals, there was a frequent loud whirr which I believe now to be the stall warner. I asked if that should be sounding and the crew laughed and said 'It always does!".
Decent chaps who were the catalyst to change a young man's life path to go from a techie to aircrew. Always appreciated.