The briefing video, the fitting of the parachute, the wait, the waddle out to the aeroplane itself, the smell, oh God the smell is there a more evocotive sense than smell ?
Dishforth. No video (we'd only just got Television oop north!) but otherwise its a timeless scene. Out across the A1 and away over Ripon. Aeros that seemed to go on for ever. 'Oh please, lets do another!' Then a go at it yourself and back for tales of daring do. I was hooked: then they discovered my eyeballs pointed in different directions and I ended up in Engineering. Sigh!