Originally Posted by
Pontius Navigator
The one I saw at Akrotiri as we taxied passed had the crew chief desperately hanging on the the towing arm. He saw the aircraft start to go and went for the towing arm. Futile as the fuel was still going in.
PN I didn’t see the AKR one, mine was at Waddo. However, I was (partially) responsible for providing ground crew entertainment at AKR when an Argosy wing stowed life raft we were fitting decided it wanted to get out! I can assure everyone that once it starts coming out, you can’t stuff it back in, as my supervising Cpl discovered to his embarrassment when he tried.
oh how they (LXX Sqn groundcrew) laughed!