Urban legend or true story?

[Jetex Jim]

The you tube interview with Taffy Holden, cited earlier, includes the following

Although the tests I did and the ensuing flight did not immediately provide a reason for the initial electrical fault, my electrical staff, with additional assistance from English Electric, Salmesbury eventually did. Apparently, in early versions of the Lightning, there was to be a ground test button fitted into the standby inverter circuit. It was never fitted to the Mk1A but the wires were left in the looms. It was one of these redundant wires which shorted on to the UHF radio as it moved on its trunnions when the aircraft nudged forward on take off. Who would have thought I should risk my life to find it, in the way I did?"

[Jaysi]

Wg Cdr Holden came to the final closing down party at Binbrook in 1988...open to those who had "flown" the Lightning

[cornish-stormrider]

And the large scrapes left in the runway on landing turned out to be his balls,

B$ST$RD great big steel ones they were too. I can't even imagine the input of adrenaline into his system. I would have left a large brown trail....

That is an absolute beauty.