Anna, Dino's excellent site,
Sea Vixen. Royal Navy. Carrier Jet. - Home has details of this incident from the outside, and much else. Tony Buttler's first rate book, "The de Havilland SEA VIXEN" published by AIR-BRITAIN is also a terrific evocation of those times and also provides many other interesting tales from those days with references, of course, to Richard as well.
I can remember E-J, with some marginal assistance from me, hacking a Phantom at night during 892's ORI. In it's haste to escape us the F4 managed to drop a boom over Tiverton, to the surprise of the locals, and our great amusement in the debrief.
25 years of being terrified by assorted fighter pilots must qualify you for something Mick, but I'm not sure what!!