Jaguar Pilot? JP, how can you use such a name when you spent your formative years flying the best a/c the RAF has had in the last 50 years? I suppose after QFIing you were sufficiently slowed down to fly a bomber so that's a bit of an excuse.
How are you, heard at the Lightning 50th that you hadn't been too well so hope everythings OK.
Have to agree that De'aths wasn't just an undertakers although I lived in Nedging Tye and could have sworn that De'aths were in Bideston. As for the 2 Sqns there at the time, at least XXX didn't have a certain young officer as a jp whose name I cannot mention even now for reasons of severe financial penalty in the bar.
And as for dropping tanks on Stowmarket, at least when I dropped mine it fell in open countryside. Indeed, the ventral was supposed to fly like a lifting body and descended relatively gently to the ground, mine was completely intact despite falling a few miles.