Neil, JTS Lewis and I were all fresh faced, first tour, FOs on 13Sqn 58-61.
We would sneak off to Akrotiri station flight and borrow their Meteor7 or Chipmunk for a few aeros or Meteor v Canberra dog fights. After one such I was trundling back to the field when there was a loud noise and a plan view of a Meteor and the top of Neil's bonedome a few feet in front of me.
Neil discovered you could get one and a half turns of a flick roll off the top of a loop in the Chipmunk, just don't look at the crinkly skin near the wing roots. Spoiled when they fitted the spin strakes.
On one occasion Neil's navigator had managed to get some leave and had swanned off in some ginormous sailing boat. Neil tracked it down and laid it on it's side spilling the G&Ts.
You could leave quite a good wake in a PR7!
Last time I flew with Neil was in a Stampe at Redhill. He failed to warn me that it dumped a few pints of hot oil in the front cockpit when you did a lomcovak.
Still cannot believe his demise. He was such a conscientious planner.
Great mate, great pilot.