Happy Days
Along with JE I had the pleasure of flying those early Mk 1's along with Paul Hardcastle and Graham Lee. We were together on the very first Sea King Conversion Course straight out of OFT on the Wx3 in January 1970.
I can remember one night when we were doing some dunking in Falmouth bay along with the 700S boys and the fog came rolling over Looe Bar and over the airfield causing panic in the tower. The Air Traffickers made frantic calls and ordered us to return immediately. We explained that we had enough fuel to divert to Lossiemouth if the airfield weather got too bad. Suddenly folk began to realise we were in a completely new era of helo ops.
G.