After I landed my aircraft I clambered out of the Hornet with the cold realisation that I might have flown my last sortie.  The spinning sensation had ceased and the sortie had gone beautifully, it was almost as if it had been a bad dream. A continuation of tales from the Old Pilot’s logbook, RAF Form 414.

 

Was the sun about to set on my career?

 

The surgery span round and round

 

Promotion

 

Exercise K89

 

One of our opponents, the F16

 

Firing off live missiles like the AIM 7M Sparrow

 

Landing in a thunderstorm

 

A week on Song Song island acting as the Range Safety Officer

 

The RSO and his crew of Malay troops

 

My final flight and the boys renamed my aircraft Nick The Pom!