Ian Bashall
Ian told his story of his experiences on Argosies one evening in a Berlin pub and it went rather like this. "It was a dark and stormy night when as copilot I took off with Capt Paddy ??? from Turin and as we climbed I realised that something was wrong when the windscreen became buried in snow and we came to a halt on a mountainside. Later we found ourselves in adjacent beds in a hospital. The BEA Chief Pilot came to visit and Paddy asked for him to pass him his briefcase. He fumbled inside, pulled out his chequebook and said "what did you say I owe you?" "
Later on Ian was the safety pilot on the jumpseat for base training at Stansted. At V1 a simulated engine failure resulted in the aircraft cartwheeling across the Essex countryside, coming to a halt with a big hole behind them whereupon Ian called out "follow me chaps - I've done this before! "