Riverboat and Chevvron, very many thanks indeed. Excellent memory-gap fillers.
Being in the ATC I used to scrounge rides in the BCBS Hastings and Varsitys in the holidays. One trip in a Varsity, they let me (aged 13 or 14) drop a couple of 25lb practice bombs on the range at Donna Nook. Imagine the kerfuffle that would cause these days with the H&S fun police.
Another memory is me and a mate spending all one Saturday trying unsuccessfully to remove the control column and wheel from a Linc in the fire dump. Then there was the crashed Wellington that would emerge from the peat bogs to the east of the airfield in dry summers.
They were always hot and long then were'nt they?