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heli1
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OK…enough.Youve forced me to dig out my old log book ,whenI took my one and only flight in a brand new Beverley doing training at Abingdon in 1956, with us excited cadets in the tail boom passenger cabin.After 30 minutes the pilot landed and pulled onto the apron…stopped a while and then took off again and proceeded to climb to height and then stall it before recovering.After doing this a couple or three times he returned to the airfield and was somewhat surprised when a bunch of very green cadets exited down the ladder from the tail boom. He thought we’d all got out at the previous landing! I survived unscathed but those who didn’t had the job of cleaning and disenfecting what had been a pristine passenger cabin….ahh..happy days..no wonder I switched to helicopters!