(1) After the war Captain Meredith Thomas recalled the first time that Major Mick Mannock flew a Airco DH-2.

One particular incident regarding Mick's flying training I well remember. That was his first solo on a DH-2, when he was told, as we all were in those days, "Don't turn below 2,000 feet; if you do, you will spin and kill yourself." Mick proved them wrong one Sunday morning in March, when he accidentally got into a spin about 1,000 feet over the munitions factory - then just across the creet on the edge of the aerodrome - and came out extremely near the ground and the munition factory, and landed successfully in a small field which was too small to fly out from.