Royal Navy Flying Grading
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Summer 1962. Glorious weather. Roborough still all grass. Never been near an aeroplane. Tiger Moths looking to this country boy significantly less sturdy than ones combine harvester! Lesson 3 spins. But sir I don't like heights. Sir with leather helmet, Snoopy goggles and a Biggles flowing green and white scarf suitably unimpressed. Swerve to avoid double decker bus as we crossed the road on the final approach and dip right wing into tall grass. Sir, unfazed recovers and on landing points out evidence of our close encounter. Happy days!! And after 47 years and several years airborne ( and still doing it)... I still don't like heights!
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Hi sounds wonderful, the CFI at that time I think was called Lucas EX RAF with a big handle bar moustache, the tigers were still there when we moved to Plymouth but were being replaced by the Chipmunks so there a mixture, I do have a photo of one of the Tigers
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Wow, there's a few crusty old buggers around this thread 
I didn't do my grading until Feb 1985, so that makes me a young slip of a thing. After scaring Messrs Clutton, Godfrey and Brown, I was allowed to take myself aloft in the venerable Chippy (WB671). Went to fly them later as an AEF pilot and glider tugging, so came to know then quite well and love getting it 'right' in a machine more challenging than the average spam can. Also flew the Bulldog and Grob in the AEF roles but nothing came close to the De Havilland machine 
I didn't do my grading until Feb 1985, so that makes me a young slip of a thing. After scaring Messrs Clutton, Godfrey and Brown, I was allowed to take myself aloft in the venerable Chippy (WB671). Went to fly them later as an AEF pilot and glider tugging, so came to know then quite well and love getting it 'right' in a machine more challenging than the average spam can. Also flew the Bulldog and Grob in the AEF roles but nothing came close to the De Havilland machine
