Originally Posted by
ShyTorque
I seem to recall a B747 landing at RAF Gutersloh in the early 1980s and the military passengers were tasked with unloading the baggage. They beat the usual unloading time into a cocked hat.
I was there; to be fair, the speed of the offload was driven by how quickly they could get the bins out of the hold of the aircraft, that was done by the RAF lads of the Air Movements Squadron; the SAMO was keen to see for TTW planning just how quickly untrained people could do the job as he was being pressured to give up guys to 18 Sqn.