Not listening to this, as I haven’t – I’m not even sure I’ve got speakers plugged in to this PC – but what brought it home to me was the night time taxi runs of Just Jane, NX611.

At around 7.00 in the evening, on the ground, there was already rime on the perspex. It doesn’t bear thinking about what it was like at 15-20,000 feet in an hour or two.

The last time we were there, some years ago, I was I guess, early sixties. They were mostly late teens or early twenties.

All volunteers…

At that age, although I was, I shouldn’t have been trusted with a motorbike or car, let alone a four-engined bomber.