Chris-s,
The following is a possible story for your pilot...did you say his name was Lt Kent?

RAF Flight Commander Worthington to Lt. Kent, "I say Old Boy, don't you think it was bloody sporting of you to just take your Spit and go off on Holliday, leaving the other chaps to entertain Jerry all this time?" "I expect to see more aspiring revelee out of a chap such as yourself."

Kent replies, "Yes sir". "You see sir, I was on the tail of a BF109 when I became lost in a fog bank somewhere off the coast..." All the while Lt. Kent was thinking, "How on earth am I going to get the old man off me for this one?" "I need a bloody Scotch and Ale!"

"Keep 'Em Flying!"
Flak