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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> It was an exciting day for schoolboy Robin Brettle and the highlight of a project he was doing on test flying: he had been granted an interview with John Cunningham. Accompanied by his father Ray Robin knocked on the door of Canley Cunningham’s home at Harpenden in Hertfordshire and after the usual pleasantries were exchanged Ray set up the tape! recorder and Robin began his interview. He asked the kind of questions a schoolboy might be expected to ask and his father helped out with a few more specific queries. As the interview drew to a close Robin plucked up courage to ask a more personal question: Were you ever scared when flying?” Thinking that Cunningham would recall some life-or-death moments when under fire from enemy aircraft during nightfighting operations father and son were very surprised at the immediate and direct answer: ‘Yes every time I flew the DH108″ Cunningham always calm resolute and courageous in his years as chief test pilot of de Havilland was rarely one to display his emotions but where this aircraft was concerned he had very strong feelings and there were times during the 160 or so flights he made in the DH108 that he feared for his life and on one occasion came close to losing it. He was not alone for all three prototypes of this extraordinary and charismatic experimental aircraft were eventually lost in fatal crashes (MP)