![]() | Flying Log Highlights below - updated 17 Aug 2016 | ![]() |
Total number of flights | 774 | |||
Total flying time | 1,262 hrs 55 mins | |||
Total distance flown | 448,137 miles | |||
Transatlantic crossings | 50 | |||
First flight | 25 Jul 1958 | Avro Anson from RAF Shawbury | ||
Fastest | 25 Jun 92 | Mach 2 - Concorde G-BOAF from New York to London | ||
Longest | 28 Nov 93 | London Heathrow to San Francisco (11hrs 30mins) | ||
Different aircraft types flown | 82 | Top 3 | Boeing 737 | 99 |
Fokker F.27 | 59 | |||
Dornier 228 | 42 | |||
Different airfields visited | 164 | Top 3 | Ipswich | 73 |
Norwich | 42 | |||
London Stansted | 41 | |||
Different carriers | 59 | Top 3 | Private flying | 123 |
Air Anglia - Air (UK) | 81 | |||
British Airways | 49 | |||
Most exciting | 19 Aug 63 | Landing at Oakington in the bomb bay of a Varsity - 2 feet from the runway | ||
1 Aug 78 | Winching up from a life-raft into a Whirlwind helicopter after 3 hours sea survival course | |||
2 Aug 78 | 4 hours at 300 feet over the Atlantic photographing Russian trawlers from a Nimrod | |||
3 Dec 79 | Air navigation via astro - Dominie from Finningley - Outer Hebrides - Norway - with bombing run on Skegness - only missed by 2 miles!! | |||
22 Jan 84 | Mami to Nassau and return via Chalk's seaplane | |||
4 Aug 89 | Flying in formation with a vintage Spitfire from the left hand seat of a Puma | |||
16 Mar 00 | Air-to-air refuelling from a Tristar off Kosovo - with virtually every type of NATO fighter coming in for a fill-up | |||
Most hair-raising | 21 Aug 61 | Varsity from RAF Lindhome - engine caught fire on take-off | ||
28 Aug 71 | Canberra from RAF Scampton - 'near miss' with a Chipmunk on an over-fly | |||
10 Mar 81 | Near miss with a Bucanneer - close by RAF Wattisham | |||
1 Oct 81 | Arhus to Ipswich in a Cessna 172 - navigation equipment caught fire over Amsterdam and cockpit filled with smoke | |||
29 Oct 84 | Belfast to Ipswich - crashed at Ipswich airport by missing the runway |