Milt,
I was so lucky to attend the re-union at Boscombe back in '93. Purely as a guest. It was probably the most privileged experience of my life seeing TP's that I had read about and whose experiences I had marvelled at let alone their displays at Farnborough in years gone by.
The banter was just amazing - such fertile minds, but I guess you had to have same to not only survive but also to deal with what then were somewhat frequent tragedies and friends lost.
The modern travelling public owe so much to those of you whose testing has made modern air travel so safe & reliable.