But a week after that,
would I like to go back
to see if I had the aptitude
Now, it wasn't lost on me
to come back to be a navigator,
it was also saying
because they'd already
all navigators would be officers.
So I very quickly wrote back
"Yes, please, I'd like to come back."
But I also thought I need
of trying to get those 3 O-levels.
So once again I went to the educational
and instead of going to reception
I went straight to the
Squadron Leader,
"I could do with some help, sir."
I said, "I'd like to take -
I've looked to see when the
and they're in 2 months' time,
and so I want to take 4 O-levels."
He said, "There's no way I can teach
That's a waste of time."
So I said, "Sir, look, I'm
because I don't want you to
I want you to get me
I don't care what the subjects are
and I don't care what grades
At that point, he said to me,
"OK, sit down. Let me find out
And I explained to him
I've just received from Biggin Hill.
At the end of it, he said,
"I stand by what I said,
you have no chance of passing
But I'm prepared to help you
And what you have to do is
for the next 8 weeks,
you have to come to my office
5 o'clock every evening.
I will set you work
bring it back the
If you don't do it
I will stop it because I think
I'm wasting my time anyway.
I said, 'Yes, that's a deal.'
So for the next 8 weeks,
every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
I go and pick up work,
In the barrack block I live in,
but there's a drying room
and we dry them,
So 3 or 4 or 5 o'clock
I'd sit in this room doing my -
and most of the morning,
And sometimes even
I'd do the work and get it
back to him in the evening.
And then at the end of 8 weeks,
After I've taken the exams,
but before the results come out,
they invite me back to Biggin Hill.
There's no interview board,
there's some hand-eye coordination,
there's those sort of things and...
hysical exercise and
So it's pretty straightforward.
And then I wait for the results
They send me a letter and it says,
"We await your exam results,"
which means I've passed.
Really, if I get them, I've passed.
The reason I chose 4 exams is
in case I failed one, and I did.
But I passed 3,
And, and now I have the basic
I send them back to Biggin Hill
