Summary of Hugh Dundas's Flying Start

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#1 The first dogfight was a introduction to the use of guns in earnest and the terrifying quality of air fighting. I was close to panic in the bewilderment and hot fear of that first dogfight.

#2 I was transformed, Walter Mitty-like, when I shot down my first enemy aircraft. I was so excited that I did not realize that I was flying the wrong direction toward the land. I turned back the way I came, thinking I could crash-land somewhere off Dunkirk and get home in a boat.

#3 I had been fascinated by the idea of war from an early age. I knew every picture in The Times History of the Great War and its sister volume about the Boer War. I gazed fascinated at the drawings and photographs of gallant Britons engaging the enemy in every kind of situation.

#4 The pilots of the Auxiliary Air Force were lawyers and farmers, stockbrokers and journalists. They had a passion for flying and a fierce determination that anything the regulars could do, the auxiliaries could do better.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822528185

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The first dogfight was a introduction to the use of guns in earnest and the terrifying quality of air fighting. I was close to panic in the bewilderment and hot fear of that first dogfight.

#2

I was transformed, Walter Mitty-like, when I shot down my first enemy aircraft. I was so excited that I did not realize that I was flying the wrong direction toward the land. I turned back the way I came, thinking I could crash-land somewhere off Dunkirk and get home in a boat.

#3

I had been fascinated by the idea of war from an early age. I knew every picture in The Times History of the Great War and its sister volume about the Boer War. I gazed fascinated at the drawings and photographs of gallant Britons engaging the enemy in every kind of situation.

#4

The pilots of the Auxiliary Air Force were lawyers and farmers, stockbrokers and journalists. They had a passion for flying and a fierce determination that anything the regulars could do, the auxiliaries could do better.

#5

In every auxiliary squadron I ever knew, there was an exceptional spirit of enthusiasm and joie de vivre. This auxiliary spirit was born in White’s Club, during the 1920s, when Lord Edward Grosvenor, a large and florid aristocrat, presided over the table there.

#6

The auxiliary squadrons were modeled after the ones at Hendon, and they saw that the Hendon squadrons put so much time and effort into their training that their flying hours matched those of most regular squadrons.

#7

I was recruited into 609 Squadron, based at Doncaster. I had hoped to go to Oxford, but my father decided that a professional qualification was more useful to me than a degree. I was articled to our family solicitors,