AEF Meteor Seven
Have found this in my notes. Meteor 452, 30 mins jet experience. Remember every minute of the flight 'though I can't remember the field (suspect Yorkshire somewhere).
Remember seeing many A/C around and about spinning and C and Bumping.
Also remember the pre flight briefing which didn't bother me a bit but then it was 03/08/62 and I was - to the day - seventeen. (On another page I have just found that it was Strubby).
Being handed the controls I thought that I was doing a good job flying S & L 'till I was asked to look at at the altimeter ( It did AVERAGE 10,000 feet but I will not disclose the standard deviation).
By then I already held a gliding license and many flights in Chipmunks, Varsitys and Valettas - all down to the UK taxpayer. As a consequence the only meaning of the word Grass to me is something you can land on
Fantastic birthday - not yet topped.
I might have walked out to that aircraft as a teenager but I walked back feeling like a man.
Whoever was in the front seat Salute.
My first flight - by the way - was in a DH Rapide at an open day on my Father's then station (Circa 1953) I suspect that it would have been Catfoss. So memory serves.