Originally Posted by
NutLoose
Late 70's walking across the Apron at an Odiham families day with Taff Walker, Wessex Master Pilot extraordinaire, when he spots the Mk 19 Spitfire sitting on the far apron... "Last time I saw one of those Laddie, it was on the secret list"
When I converted to the Puma at Odiham, also in the late 70s, one of the retread crewmen I trained alongside was older than my father and had been a flight engineer on Lancasters. Perhaps understandably, bearing in mind he’d spent a lot of time sitting between four Merlins in his youth, he was partly deaf, too.