Originally Posted by
NutLoose
I'm not a great lover of heights and working up on the VC10 engines used to give me the willies even though I loved it, one of the most frightening times was letting myself slide off the side of the engines and drop onto the safety raiser next to the fire extinguisher housing... It got even more frightening when it was raining or when deiced as gloss paint, deciing fluid and water made the whole thing like an ice rink, top that off with having safety harnesses in stores but nowhere to actually to clip them.
1982 ish. Brize, base hangar. Was doing an airframe repair on stubwing, 16ft plus a/c on jacks. Fell off, landed on hangar floor and broke both wrists, elbo and cheekbone after doing a back-flip. Funny old thing, the staging was modified soon after? Bless the lads, they painted one off them dead men on the floor where I landed! (the GS I had with me was never found?)