QUESTIONS

Q : Why were early French fighter planes called Jockeys? A. K. Derring, Billericay, Essex. Q : Does anyone know the author and title of a poem that begins ‘Two steps down and into the garden/Through the gate and into the lane/Nobody’s seen me/I’m all by myself and out in the rain’? I learned this more than 70 years ago. Mrs Maureen Cooke, Barnstaple, Devon. Q : How did the great producer Joe Meek create the eerie sounds that make up the first and last 14 seconds of Telstar? A. J. Ryan, Dagenham, Essex.