I had not heard the story and found reading it via the link highly enjoyable, as it had much more detail than he could get into the radio time allowed.
My father served at both Tangmere (29 in the start of his service) and West Raynham (141 for the main part) and he also served at some of the other stations that were beaten up. Pity I can't ask him his thoughts about this event. Nor, for that matter, his pilot who was working his way up to Air Commodore at the time of the incident and was closely involved in the introduction of the Hunter. Checking his record, he was officer Commanding RAF Buchan at the time of this Hunter event.
With regards to the two rotating wing things (thanks for the link WHBM) one wonders what the CAA answer would have been if HMQ actually was in the leading machine? I guess that, if she wanted to take the ride, she could!