Wow, that was definitely a couple of minutes well spent. And whilst the images were beautiful and the ex-pilots' stories fascinating, for me, it was the RT messages playing in the background that really brought home the fact that if only aeroplanes could talk. The RT clip of one mate giving the order to bale out was something else... I thought I'd had a pretty lousy day today, I guess not in the grand scheme of things.
It reminded me of the time I went to Duxford and got talking to one of the stewards as I was looking at the Lancaster. As we were talking, the fact that I was serving cropped up and 5 minutes later I was clambering up the steps into the Lancaster. It's rare that I'm lost for words but that was a special moment. And who says machines don't have a personality or a soul.