with raindrops stinging my face
Boy, do I remember that - one January day, around '85, temp about +4, and the rain at 38 knots felt like hundreds of pin-sharp needles thrown against your forehead!
I would have loved to have taken a MKIII up on a strong thermal day
We didn't get many of those at Manston but I did keep a Mk3 up for 6 minutes once
- with a sprog!
(Just re-read thread & realised I'd already written about the rain-needles 
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Advancing age is a terrible thing.........)