Milk Run, Page 3
Ray Daley
(which I did to check I HAD got it right).
The craft was named Miss Flick after Jane Felicity (call me Flick) Wilkinson, a WRAF friend from my Strike Command days.
D. Smith was Darren Smith, a compatriot from my time in Air Staff Registry at Strike Command.
Adey-Jackson circuits were named after two friends from secondary school, Phil Adey and Richard Jackson.
Laker Spaceways will be obvious to those old enough to have heard of Freddie Lakers budget airline having had the idea long before Stelios ever thought of Easy Jet. Coulter was just made up, I believe I may have borrowed the name Murchison from Larry Niven, I have chosen to spell it a different way.
Did you spot my little Star Wars reference? A bad motivator is how Luke Skywalker comes to meet R2D2.
What's really scary is that I knew Viking was a Mars probe without even checking.
I'm sorry if the ending is a bit weak, I was writing in a silly hot temperature when I was trying to complete this.
