To Cosford, the Crown

摘要

A child of the 1950s, my ninth birthday was in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 18 to November 20,1962. It may be hindsight, but while pictures of US Lockheed U-2s and Ilyushin 11-28 Beagles pleased my plane-crazy appetite, I was also aware of the all-pervading sense of foreboding that gripped my little world.