I flew on the AM2 trial in 29 Palms with Brian Essex and Tony ('Banzai') Banfield. Tony was from Boscombe Down and not a Nimrod pilot; this led to an 'interesting' arrival onto the AM2 when Tony cut the throttles over the threshold - the 4g arrival didn't do much for the integrity of panels down the back of the aircraft or my neck! I remember we took an awful lot of fuel from the fuel farm, took it round the back of the hills to jettison it, and then landed again as soon as possible. The trial was all about operating on to and off of AM2, and time in the air was wasted time.