lj101,
Quite a while = 1 year, nearly to the day. Not 2 years and not when the majority of CATARA (if that's still a politically correct term to use) was ongoing.
Dom Stamp = Lyneham (Hercs)
Jon Ager = Brize Norton (VC-10....(nimrod too but beside the point....)
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