his "own" Meteor
I entered the service in 1958 at the age of 18. Royalist tells us that he is of the same age. Surely Meteors were confined to training and trials by then. I am expecting Royalist to name a commandant at Farnborough, Boscombe or Manby (where "Splinters" was 1961-63) or otherwise a very senior HQ figure of the time. I only mentioned "Batchy" because he arrived once by Meteor at Cranwell while I was there.