Hugh I could believe that, I knew BJ of Falklands fame and our careers kept meeting up.
He was on the Puma OCU at the time I worked there and being both northerners we got on well, I next saw him on Chinooks during his OCU course and also in RAFG when he participated on an exercise at Wegberg and we got a chance to catch up.
The next time I saw him was at Brize on the Tens when I entered a darkened VC10 on the front, he was patiently awaiting someone to arrive as a Loadmaster wasn’t even allowed to put power on! Which was a heck of a let down from what he had done in his past.