Flight Line

摘要

As a young lad, I had several ambitions. However ridiculous it might seem in retrospect, they included meeting my boyhood hero 'Chuck' Yeager and flying in the English Electric Lightning, that most sleek and genuinely supersonic fighter that I watched in awe at September's Farnborough displays. This was all, I should add, many years before my other hero, Debbie Harry of Blondie fame, first came to prominence. As things turned out, I would get to fly in a Lightning in 1982 and later to meet Yeager but never Debbie Harry, although she did, perhaps coincidentally, release the track 'Denis' in 1977.