Retreating blade
Some info from Dad’s log books. The trial sequence was Op Grapple Zulu. The test was a suspended bomb on 22 aug 58. He flew in ‘Sniff 2’. Which sort of implies that there was at least a ‘Sniff1’! Prior to this on 16 & 19 aug they flew two sorties designated as ‘scientific rehearsal’ and ‘operational rehearsal’. He died in 2009 from some rare cancer; he did smoke a pipe every day for 60 years and at his funeral his pilot was in pretty good nick.
As an aside and one of those quaint coincidences his log book was signed by the 76 sqn xmas island det cdr who subsequently taught me to fly the chipmunk
at Manston in 1984.
Rgds