Yours truly was a long-haired QMC student at the time, dossing in Commonwealth Hall; heard about the race and managed to sneak into St Pancras Goods yard in time to see TLT arrive and launch vertically on an awe-inspiring, eardrum-bursting column of jet-noise and coal dust. Looking like a mate from the deepest Welsh colliery, I went straight round to the Kingsway RAF recruiting office and applied for GD/P - but that's another story......