Soggy,
Was this your Farnborough programme?
John,
Yes, that was the one. Thanks for the newspaper article. Brian Sarginson was CO of 705 when I was a student and then my first CO on 845. He was a superb pilot and held in much awe by we lower life-forms.
During that Farnborough we also had motorcycles on loan - I think they were Triumph 250 cc scrambles bikes. I wasn't able to ride them as I had just been banned from driving, my last heinous offence having been to fail to stop at a T-junction in Helston whilst riding my wife's slowped
. I seem to remember we'd already written off 2 bikes by the end of the first day we had them. They were also used in a little jolly jape when the chaps went off to look at the 'Dead Sparrows' aircraft and noticed that their team had been given MGBs by MG After sticking Fly Navy stickers all over them the trials bikes were revved up in first gear whilst on their parking stands and the Dead Sparrows gleaming machines well sprayed with mud
