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144nwell. I think I was the first to solo on the JP, after 8 hours. It was ctor Flt Lt Woods (no first name in memory) got out and said %u201c off ound it difficult to find him on the airfield to return him to Cranwell. my first IRT (well deserved). Some of the course was a bit weird, all the ATC towers through Lincolnshire and using chinagraph on pletely ruined when low cloud rolled in over Cranwell, so I had to rs to judge it from Cranwell! Needless to say, a poor result. I think tion day, when Gail and my father were sitting in a JP5 in the , so when Gail pressed the fire button and there was a loud bang mber being told that on any normal course I would have won the our medical issues curtailed a very promising flying career.r misses from my subsequent flying career, but will leave it %u2018till oring.one Ian Danby, from Masirah. He was quite surprised that I could d that in 1972/3 the RAF had a surplus of pilots in the training ars later, I also discovered that the US university I taught at set e playing field has any number of levels, it would seem.ostly to major cutbacks in air transport - Britannias, Belfasts, 1980 we were short of pilots - while in RAFG I was invited to