I remember begging a trip in a Shack, circa 1980 when I was repairing a bent Hunter at Lossiemouth. The 12 hour flight involved a lot of droning over the North Sea, a fly past at Linton on Ouse (I think) and a two hour lecture by a chap called Graham South, a met office observer doing a study on cumulus clouds (do you know him Langley ?). I think the post flight debrief we contrived in the Sgts Mess was a more successful outcome to our experience.
Smudge