Late 70's as Valley was switching from the Gnats to the Hawk and the introduction of the 3 original Hawk Sims made by Redifon in Crawley.
Hands up those who remembered how the boxes arrived at Valley and what happened to Sim 3 in Bangor.
The Sim Synchro pair - Dougie (Mr Gnat) and Brian Todd (Make it fly like a Hawk) were the most entertaining and most knowledgeable pair of Gentlemen I had the pleasure of working with during my 25yrs of service.
Brian left us in 2011 and tonight I raise a glass or 3 to both of you for allowing me to be the back seat ride with Unit Test Pilot/Weather ship as we developed the "Fly Like a Hawk" software fixes, all written in Assembler code and loaded on a paper tape into the Redifon R2000A computer
Happy days....