Originally Posted by
Tankertrashnav
A year or two back I was chatting to Geoffrey Wellum who is one of the last surviving BoB pilots. I asked him what he had been doing recently and he replied that he'd been flying a Spitfire, I'm ashamed to say that for a moment I though "Oh dear, Geoffrey's mind is finally going" but of course I was wrong, and he had been flying in one of the two seaters out of Kidlington, on a day specially arranged for BoB pilots.
I saw Geoff Wellum in Helston just after reading about his 'recent' Spifire flight from Kidlington and asked him what it was like to be back in a Spit? "Like I had never been away" was his response!
He must be 96 or 97 now - not seen him for a while.