Wisley Horse Manure

When the Trans-Atlantic Air Race terminated at Wisley the RAF VC10 lobbed in. The guy with the “ticket” ran down the steps into a waiting chopper to take him to St Pancras (the Customs man was waiting for him in the chopper!!). Meanwhile all the other persons on the VC10 were slowly filing down the steps. A couple of Gp Captains (as I remember it), several Wg Cdrs, and more Squabbling-Bleeders and Flit Loots than you could shake a stick at Tom Cats in a fish market on a Sunday. They had all been described on the FLTEMPLANE as “crew”.
The Lord Trubshaw was stood at the back of the mob in the tower at Wisley, and as all this vast throng of “crew” came down the steps he uttered what I thought was a brilliant comment “S**t”, he said, “I didn’t think we’d made them that difficult to fly!!!”. The tower fell about.
Resmoroh (I was there)