Thanks for your kind posts.
I'd like a trip in your plane FNG but I doubt my navexes will take me to White Waltham: Luton and Stanstead in the way, my instructors will probably insist on a less cluttered north westerly trip. Maybe if I get a car I could drive down there some day though, very kind of you to offer.
Can anyone clarify this mystery over how much training WW2 pilots did? Surely 30 hours on Tigers then straight onto spits couldn't have been normal. And the RAF did use lots of Harvards didn't they?
Lowtimer: I think you sent me a private message but it hasn't arrived/doesn't work or something.