30-08-2021, 10:30 PM
We had a retired RAF pilot in the village some years back. He flew anything and everything during his time but spent some of WW11 training pilots on Moths. Definitely a maverick, telling me the story that on D Day he, with his student, ventured out into the Channel heading for the French coast for a stooge around. They didn't stay long as he kept spotting aircraft " with black crosses on them "! Later he did high altitude testing on Spitfires and after the war converted to jets - Vampires, and the like. Retired from the RAF, he flew helicopters for oil companies in the Middle East. Proper bloke.