I flew the last ever tanker sortie in a Valiant and on that occassion we left the drogue on a Lightning. The open hose, all the valves being in the drogue assembly, put out one, if not two, of his engines and he lost a lot of height getting everything going again. His landing back at Leconfield was not helped by the drogue stuck to one wing during a crosswind landing.
Honington was having its runway done, so as we landed at Marham I could see that a bomber Valiant had been stopped at the holding point by a senior officer in his Standard Vanguard. A Marham bomber landed shortly after us and so operational Valiant flying came to an end.