Hornchurch for aptitude tests for an Air Training Corps Flying Scholarship in the winter of 1961-1962 for me. I would have been seventeen and I remember we slept in a very cold Nissen hut "warmed" only by a single coal/wood burner. I subsequently failed the selection board for Cranwell but three years later I applied for the RN as a pilot and because the aptitude tests were only valid for two years I had to sit them again, at Biggin Hill, before going on to the Navy selection board at HMS Sultan, Gosport.
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