Double Zero
As for " loving to see & hat's off " etc, re. Flying a Hunter through Tower Bridge, it's probably a schoolboy taunt but I'll bite.
What on earth makes you think it was a schoolboy taunt? 
Taunting whom?
That post was in January 2007 and you responded to it more than three years later in February 2010.
I received a lot of flak from 1960's pilots
I don’t know what you intend to imply by “1960’s pilots” but I can vouch for the fact that at least two of the many pilots who didn’t share your opinions were still at school in the 1960s, and didn't start flying until the 1970s. One of them became a respected fast jet test pilot, TP tutor and display pilot; I'd confidently put my life in his hands in any aircraft at any time. (The other is me.)
any sub-heroic replies will be up to you to determine their degree of madness !
Strong words for someone who isn’t a pilot, and never has been.
I do find a force-feedback 'joystick' is well worthwhile, one can assign hand-on button & rotary controls for throttle, gear, flaps, outside view etc; it even trembles as one trundles across grass
I don't doubt you’re a wizz on MS Flightsim. 
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