I interviewed and photographed  Jeff Watson for the February  March  edition of Camera magazine.

Watson and Bernard St Albans the test pilot flew from the English coast to the coast of Norway in eight minutes at 1520 MPH.”I felt as sick as a dog. To get in that thing I had to do a lot of fast talking.  Had to do the ejector training ride in case we had to get out.  Go from 0 mph to 60 mph in one twentieth of a second. Had to do a decompression test like a diver and very quickly and secretly starved of oxygen and said write your name on a pad, of course your getting nitrogen narcosis and giggling and scribbling and they video you and you say that’s not me!   That simulated a rapid decompression in case the aircraft blows a screen and you have to get down. We went to 60,000’ about 13 miles as high as the Concord. In the late 60’s the Lighting was playing policeman  (and they had to get upstairs very quickly) to Russian bombers coming down over the North Sea and deliberately penetrating British airspace. The radar would pick them up and the lightning’s (or whatever) would scramble and chase them away like in the Second World War. We had hoped to intercept a Russian bomber that day.”