Kit Bennett
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And look, you know, probably after the third brandy, he might have said to me, he said, what are these things like to fly?
I've got to be able to say what they're like to fly.
You know, what happens if you have an engine failure shortly after takeoff?
You know, if you're under 150 knots, you know, you punch out.
If you, you know, whatever, you know, I can't remember any of it now, but I did have it all in there then.
So that was good and that worked very well.
And a couple of officers up there, who I shan't name, were really great at doing that.
The Chief of Air Staff had agreed to it, and it was...
I don't think anything was ever written down.
The rest of them just knew me because I used to go up and... I was an officer in the cadet forces, so I used to go up and run the commissioning courses for the adults that did it.