Puters in a 707!!! - one of the highlights of my teens was accompanying my father on a Mauritius trip in 1975 in EB something. From Perth to Mauritius, and return a week or so later, I spent almost the entire trip up the front...the Navigator, Gerry Geary, teaching me how to use the bubble sextant to reduce star shots. I was already a reasonable hand at an ordinary sextant and sun shots from the east coast ocean racing scene. Lovely man...and VERY funny out on the piss
Gerry had been Dad's bomb aimer on Lincolns, 1 Sqd, in the late 50s during the Malayan Emergency - bombing the fck out of the Malay Peninsular.
Quite a sight for your average 14 year old...your, hitherto, terribly 'square' father and an old mate ****faced on the floor of your room making low flying hands and singing 'The RAF were flying Lancasters at zero thousand feet...."
