Originally Posted by
Olympia463
Did the T31 have a nose hook? Ours didn't, and I was always towed using the belly hook quite satisfactorily.
All the Air Cadet Mk 3s in my era had nose hooks as well as a belly hook.
I lost count of the number of times I heard a 'take up slack' and on looking shouting 'STOP, release the cable' even when you took great care to brief AEG cadets not to use it.
We did use the nose hook a couple of times too though, when ferrying gliders to/from Bovingdon on detachment using the Halton Chipmunk tug.