I worked with an ex-Sea Vixen Observer. A quarter of his type conversion course died during the course.
The coal-hole (Obs seat) was a horrible place at the best of times, I'm told.
While at BRNC I stepped out with the daughter of a Sea Vixen Observer who was killed when she was about 18 months old. Her mother heard that her daughter was sweet on a prospective aviator and told her to stop seeing me forthwith.
She married another (seaman) officer in Dark Blue who rose to Flag rank - her mother was right all along
