Originally Posted by
Barksdale Boy
Good to see that you are alive and kicking John. I well remember a conversation we once had about Chomsky. Bootsie was station commander when I arrived at Waddo in '68.
All these memories!
When Bootsie was CO Waddington, a practice Blue Steel HTP offload was scheduled on his staton from a Scampton aircraft. This was meant to be a daylight exercise but it was dusk when the aircraft arrived. The Co-pilot, Keith Walters, whose duty it was to assist the radar to offload the HTP into a concrete pit, just got out of the aircraft - all engines still running - when a semi circle of car headlights came on and from a very loud megaphone Bootsie's voice said "Get off my f**ing station and take your f**ing HTP away". Keith climbed back on board and the Vulcan flew back to Scampton.