Ahhh memories. Summer 1971 was the first time I got airborne in anything apart from going flying over the handlebars of my bike. I remember being amazed at hearing dogs barking from 1,500' on the downwind leg after the winch launch from Swansea's tarmac. The launch was a fantastic sensation that has stayed with me all these years.
I took my kids to Duxford and there was a T31 being rebuilt. When I told them that was the first aircraft I flew in they looked at me as if I was one of the Wright brothers!