BrownDHC2,
Thank you for the "Bussey Productions" YouTube pointer. Fascinating stuff but boy, was the Bristol one ugly duck in the sky!
Loved the low level tour of the channel forts too.
Mike Bussey ended up as a DC-8 skipper in Transmeridian. I think earlier in his flying career he had flown the B-50 Washington in the RAF. He was a great skipper and one of the most quietly competent and thoroughly pleasant chaps to fly with.
Eddie Roocroft had been a bomber pilot in WW2 and did indeed fly in Biafra. DC-6s. There is a documentary film about Biafra in which another pilot recounts an early flight into Biafra and his worries about the anti-aircraft fire. Eddie reassured him with a cheery "Nothing to worry about, I've been shot at by professionals lad!"