I’ll never forget my first visit to the Foriegn Training Unit in Culdrose. My old man, who was still lamenting the sudden end of his fixed-wing career at Lossie and cursing Crabs (whom I later found out to be the RAF and NOT an infestation of pubic lice or crustacean – type seafood
) showed me round a Marinefleiger example. I feel in love with it that very day! Will never forget those days when the Navy flew 24/7 and I would watch them from my bedroom window in Clodgey Way on the Old Admiralty Estate. Excellent Machine and for 1973 – the Mutts Nutts (To a 10 year old lad at least!) and surely the export record of the UK variant must speak volumes for the quality of this machine?
Holidayed in Gunwalloe (3 miles from Culdrose) in September last – Saw the Merlin Flying - Nice Canary but didn’t do it for me
