Ah yes, Courtney, an excellent scene from the film:
Brian's suggestion of the dative rather than the accusative case for 'motion towards' causing the centurion to draw his sword - brilliant. The sort of schoolboy error which would have caused a similar reaction from my old Latin master, although without the sword. Doubtless 'Jake' would have reacted in a similar manner, eh Courtney? Those oiks who have never had the 'pleasure'
of having to study Latin won't really understand the significance of Brian's grammatical errors.
Back to test piloting, I was fortunate enough to acquire a copy of the excellent 1986 BBC series
Test Pilot on DVD last year. Watching it recently, it is abundantly clear how much the RAF has changed for the worse since those happier days of 25 years ago....
