Your story if true ( and I have no reason whatever to think it isn't ) ought to be in a book of somekind - too many of these things go unrecorded.
My thoughts exactly! Someone should write the book because it sounds like E-J was a bit (alot) more than just a good pilot and a decent bloke. Blimey, wipes half a wing off but he gets it back on the ground and he and QWIN walk away - now that takes SKILL
