Danny,
What great reading. I was one of your students at Shawbury in 1965-66, I really don't know how you coped with us upstarts. I believe the Javelin test pilot was Fred Butcher, also, I remember Bob Warwick with considerable admiration. Not only was he a great instructor on the DF but he also was an accomplished dinghy sailor, awarding me my RAFSA "A" Helm award on the lake at Ellesmere.
I and two other APOs on my Joint Course were the first students to be "selected" to go straight on to the Radar Course and then direct to Sopley for the Area Radar course. This was in order to fill the huge new requirement for area controllers with the opening of the Type 82 Units (Watton, North Luffenham and Lindholme). Great days.