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<< Before you continue debating me on the details of World War One aviation >>

I wasn't, you will note, "debating the details of" ... anything. Beyond, that is, the age of that tired old [But good] joke about all dem fokkers.

<< When did you first start writing? (grin) >>

Nineteen fifty nine. [Boring ol' "Operations and Training" manuals, mainly.

But I started flyin' 'em slightly more than twenty-nine thousand command hours ago, in 1953 and first-solo'd [In a sailplane] in December of 1954: aged 13. My Student Pilot Licence was issued on December 14 1957; my PPL [Validated by telegram] on December 14 1958; [The same year I joined the Air Force] CPL on December 14 1960 [Validated by telegram] and ATPL [Validated by telegram] on December 14 1962. [BIGGER grin!]

So there!

And bow to Polybius's superior skill in every department except that of estimating the age of that joke.

[Man's gotta reserve a bit of 'face!']

Well.

OK.

He's right about them fokkers, too.

Mutter ... Mutter ... Mumble ... Mumble ...

<]:^)~<