And so the Whirlwind picked us up one by one and returned us to the ASR launch. Nice to hear that people and still enjoying the pics and the anecdotes. Yes there are a good few still to come from me at least. The good thing about this site is that the pics and stories appear nowhere else!
I remember Graham telling me about his fight to keep his pilot wings after the Buccaneer OCU, but I had no idea about the RN bit.
Anecdote about JC. My secondary duty at Lyneham was as specialist officer for the station commissioning and airman aircrew boards.(I had done the PSO course at OASC) and when JC was the 'staish' at Lyneham he always chaired the boards as well. Some of the others would delegate to one of the W/C.
After one busy session, he said to me that it was only once he became the 'staish' that he realised how little control he had over what went on on his station !. Well all the tasking was external, and a team of workers had turned up at the gate to start building a new secure Comcen. No one higher up had thought it necessary to inform the station. Reminds me of von Runstetds (?)
remark that the only thing Hitler let him change was the guard on the gate !
Of course JC almost left the RAF after his tour at Lyneham came to an end. But that is another story.