Lou Scannon:
The SDO that night was Flt Lt Taff Johns...."Sir.....there's going to be an accident!"
Always somewhat economical with his words, for a Welshman! As a QFI he faced the unpleasant task of breaking the bad news to a student pilot, while doing the necessary debriefing paperwork, along the following lines:
"Now what's you name again?". "Smith, Sir". "No, no, I mean your first name, what does your Mummy call you?". "Oh! John, Sir", (relaxing slightly at this slight thawing of the prevailing temperature). "Well John, you're chopped!".
Apologies for the thread drift. But thanks for recalling those far off days at Thorney!