Topcliff Musings
Langley
Topcliffe was the school for budding AEOs and AEOps (Siggies then)
The little trail of varsities would bimble off daily on a four hour cross country with the students blasting the airwaves with morse and voice transmissions. (WT and RT sorties) I always wondered if this radiation would affect any family prospect but fortunately it was a myth. I was a junior nav on a holding posting at Topclife and though I was the only nav on board the varsity, the staff pilots and pilot assistants knew their way all round the routes better than I did. The weather in the Vale of York was always pants at that time of year so some exciting approaches were made on recovery.
Apart from some memorable evening sorties into Thirsk I have no lasting fondness for Topcliffe.