I was fortunate enough to fly chippies when they were fairly new.
Derby Burnaston in 1951
Came top of that course, but failed miserably when given something more difficult to fly, and was banished to be a navigator
I think that was when Philip was at Cranwell, we sometimes got notices about "purple airways" to be avoided when he was about.
I used to enoy spinning, was happily spinning down from about 8 or 9 thousand, when I saw a Bristol Freighter below me, and quickly recovered.