At Farnborough, Flt Lt Ken Mills could captain the Comet, BAC 111, Hastings and Andover. One day after morning briefing, in the minibus taking us across the airfield to his aircraft for the morning, he was heard to be muttering 'two props and a nosewheel, two props and a nosewheel' in order to remind himself which aircraft to get into!
Ken was the only pilot who could land the Comet '914 without any discernable puff of smoke from the tyres.
It was quite normal for the 'fast jet' specialists to be current on Hunter, Jaguar, Buccaneer, the Devons of Transport Flight and Wessex helicopter, and one of the IAM pilots, a USAF doctor who normally flew the Hunter, was an authorised co-pilot on the BAC111.