Phil Wilkinson(1958) Gilbert McKay and Reg Perman (if he were still alive) would recall that Phil spent far too much time from 1958 to 1961 on the stage, on the river, or in the air. He has now found it sensible to give up all activity in the first two categories, except watching. But the air - now that's a different matter. Phil writes regularly for aviation magazines and found an opportunity recently to get back into that uplifting element. His University Air Squadron instructor back in the 50s was one Boz Robinson. Like Phil, he had a full career in the RAF, serving at one time - also like him - as the Defence and Air Attaché in the British Embassy in Moscow. He was in the process of selling his interesting aeroplane - a Buecker Jungmann - to a group of German enthusiasts in Hamm and needed a co-pilot to help him get it there from its UKbase at Duxford. The trip was much more eventful than it need have been, and the story is best left to mature for a few more months, to protect the innocent. But you can see what a delight it was to be once again up in the air together: combined age ofpilots and aircraft comes to about 200!
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