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137%u201cGemini is named after the Heavenly Twins, Castor and Pollux. They fly in yellow flying suits, and are known as Golden Castor and Golden Pollux%u201d.Time to flee again!! This time by car, back to RAF Leeming where I knew plenty of places to hide.By late afternoon on the following Monday, there had still been no retribution. Fortunately, I had already flown three trips by that time, and so had been largely out of the line of fire. It was another warm evening, and I was sitting in the flowerbed (one did in those days) waiting to brief trip no. 4, when I espied the familiar figure of OC Ops detach itself from the base of ATC and set off in my direction. Having scrambled out from amongst the rose bushes, and established sufficient decorum to form a reception committee, I threw a very smart salute at him and tried, unsuccessfully, to smile.%u201cPeter%u201d he said %u201cYou have incurred my displeasure. I have a signal here from AOC 23 Group. It is very short, I will read it to you. It says, The expression %u2018Golden Pollux%u2019 is to be removed from the Gemini commentary %u201d.He turned and left, and never mentioned it again, although neither did he speak to me for several weeks - just looked.I still break out in a cold sweat.1QFI %u2013 Qualified Flying Instructor