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Old 28th Jan 2017, 08:57
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Fareastdriver
 
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At the beginning of 1962 the Varsities moved down from Valley to Oakington. I had been at Oakington on Vampires and the our previous course had just passed out. This meant that my course then moved to the main officers mess as was the custom so we let all those piston pilots have the Student's Mess.

My initial flying training was at Tern Hill on Provost T1s. Only two of us were selected for all jet advanced training at Oakington, the rest went to Valley for Vampire/Varsity training. The result of the shifting around was that our fellow students at Tern Hill were fell behind so they ended up as the supporting flight to mine and my colleague's Wings Parade.

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