1961 St Mawgan: Shackleton XF710 up for 12 hours 30 mins on an Atomic Alert exercise, once airborne we had to fly over the sea at night and eventually got diverted to RAF Valley in North Wales, refuelled and serviced the kite, slept on board in the bunks, then took off again down to The Bay of Biscay for another 10 hour 25 minute trip arriving back at SM on the 12th October.
1963 Lyneham: Flew to El Adem in Britannia XM517 (Avior) 5 hours and 30 minutes, went over to the NAAFI, found three guys in there that I knew so drank Slopps for 3 hours