I don't know why, but I've always been fascinated by the De Havilland twin boom jets
Kitbag,
Me too. I was lucky enough to have a ride in a Vampire at Shawbury in 1968. My one and only ride on a live ejection seat.
Four years ago in NZ, I had several flights in an ex-Swiss Vampire (in exchange for lots of small pieces of paper
) including multiple touch and goes. "Just fly it like a 250 kt motorglider!"
I wrote to a friend and told him that the cockpit seemed smaller than I remembered. He charitably suggested that perhaps I was flying a ⅞ scale Vampire!
I have a lot of fun telling my North American pilot friends that I've flown a wooden jet fighter. Here's my favourite photo of "my" Vampire:
Two De Havilland fighter bombers!
