Originally Posted by
treadigraph
Ah, Whitgift School, 20 plus years ago you would get a Chinook beating the place up during careers week or whatever. Not sure what height it would have been but not very much at all - certainly a wake up for the neighbours! We could see them from our office.
(Don't know if they've still got them but Whitgift School used to have several wallabies in a pen which you could see from the top deck of a passing bus; grey Monday mornings were certainly brightened by seeing those bouncing around the grounds on yer way to work!)
In this case the Lynx landed and flew one or two pupils.
A year or so later, I started flying the Shadow microlights at Redhill and one of the first club members I met was a schoolmaster from Whitgift. I mentioned my nephew's name; he asked what he looked like and when I said 'tall and skinny wears glasses' he replied 'they all look like that'!