A Pilot "Malgre Lui".
Camlobe,
What a mountain you had to climb ! No wonder my groundcrew always knew so much more about the thing I was flying than I did myself !
The "Taffy" Holden story was a surprise. The story that went round the RAF some time in '62 -' 64 had it happening in Lyneham - indeed the tale of the "Lyneham Lightning" was legendary. Could there have been a second case at Binbrook ? (we have plenty of Lightning drivers on strength who can tell us).
They managed to keep the story out of the papers somehow. It arrived in the Instructors' Common Room in Shawbury on a Monday morning (having supposedly happened on the previous Saturday). We rang Lyneham ATC, but they were very cagey - we could get nothing out if them.
It did appear in the Press, but years later, when the trail had gone cold.
D.