News from the "It's a small world" department!!!!
I was one of the apprentices doing the mapping with the esteemed Mr Corps!!! (PM sent John)
I was doing some homework in a briefing room in A shed when I heard the Hunter start up. I didn't go and watch it's take off because Hunter take offs were two a penny those days. I went out when I heard the crash claxon go off.
In a further development in the "It's a small world" department, I bumped into one of the pilots thirteen years later when he was a 767 P2 for BA.
I don't recall the Hunter being called Kermit either.
I do remember a certain John Farley turning up to fly it once as well. Some of us apprentices were in awe that this god of aviation was turning up in our hangar. I say some as one of our number said "Who the hell is he?"! We put him right!
Rgds Dr I