For Tim who started all this.
My memories of the Lightning and those that flew them are pretty peripheral being a Navy Jungly pilot of great age. However I do remember that those that flew them seemed to be much closer in attitude to the FAA pilots than to their fellow Crabs!! I have a story of night flying at Valley being curtailed owing to a combination of 846 NACS and 11 Squadron having a birthday party in the mess to the accompaniment of Mk 8 thunderflashes, lighter fuel and a borrowed piano. I enclose a photo of the trophy,(made from burnt bits of the piano and a £5 note), presented to them in Malta when they had had their leave stopped for mocking the landings of the Air Malta 707. All Lightning history I suppose..........? Let me know and I will send you more.
I wonder if the trophy still exists? The piano certainly doesn't!!!!
