Thank God!
For a moment I thought there might be a chance that
Summertime may have broken that early British convention of 'old boy favouritism' but .. I am relieved to see that it was still very much in force!
Landing at Brooklands could be like walking into an informal Navy shindig and there were other locations which were equally polarised!
For all his failings the Colonel did try his best not to load-up Ferranti with exclusively ex-Army types although his right hand (Major Warburton) and a fair smattering were of course Army.
But .. his Chief Pilot (Ron Salt) was ex-RAF, Deputy Chief Pilot (Chris Hunt) ex-Army, Pilot Manager (Paul Blackiston) ex-RN and the company instructors were all fairly evenly distributed. They included Peter Cox (RAF), John Grandy (Army) and PPRuNer Speechless Two (who was Bolkow Training Captain and went on to become Chief Pilot of BCal H) who was ex-RN.
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SWBKCB: Thanks for the heads-up!
Sea King Lovers Alert: BBC2 at 21:00 hrs on Thursday 28th February (an hour after Pope Benedict departs his office .. by helicopter one might add!).
