My first air experience was out of Tangmere around April/May of 1970 and having gone onto fly later, it is etched in my memory as if on glass.
I was in the back with the instructor in the front, over to the sewerage farm for some gentle aero's and I flew most of the trip including the approach - he with his head between his knees, bobbing up every so often to check that I was still heading in the right direction.
The quiet swish over the grass and "check, check, check" settling on with a satisfying rumble...and the whole cockpit was green except for the coaming. I seem to remember it being worn down to black along the edge of the cockpit around the canopy but otherwise it was that strange pastel green colour.
I don't have a picture and I really regret it for more reasons than one.
I flew in the one at Booker a couple of years ago but it did'nt really sound or feel the same.
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