Westie - you mean you had a go on that landing simulator at Johnson Space Center as well? Great fun, wasn't it! Took me about 3 goes to get the hang of it - just follow the flight director as closely as possible...
I pinched the idea of 'RAF' from something I'd read in Johnny Kent's book
'One of the Few' which I'd read a week or so earlier. On page 234, if you don't believe me.
Fortunately it didn't have quite the same effect when I'd said it as when he did - that was some 25 years earlier when McCarthyist paranoia was at its height.
Oh - and were you in the carrier - or the lighthouse?
