blind pew, I was in the flight planning room at Colombo Airport in the late seventies. We were taking a DC8 to Kuwait when John Cunnigham sidled up to me and asked for help to fill in a flight plan to China for a Trident he was delivering. The last time I had seen him was when he was demonstrating a Comet a long time before at Farnborough. He looked very old to me!.