Originally Posted by Globocnik : That said, at the French base at Cazaux, where their ‘force de frappe’ guys were based, wine was available on tap at lunchtime, and regularly imbibed by the guys on QRA, in their goon suits. As it was at L’Orient and Landivisau. The mess at Nîmes-Garons has its own domaine and this was served at lunch and dinner. And bloody good it was to. So it was part of the culture then, mid 80’s or so. Suspect long gone.
was detached for a month to the flight test centre at Marignane for some trials and in the restaurant there at lunchtime, when in flying kit, would routinely be asked "red or white?" when getting to the end of the servery.