Originally Posted by
ACW599
On UWAS in about 1973 we had "Thumper" Thompson. I can't now remember how he acquired this sobriquet -- presumably he thumped someone at some stage -- but I gather that nickname remained with him throughout his career.
If it was the same guy on Nimrods, we always thought the name came from his very solid landings.
A favourite trick by the ops staff was to put his name up on the ops board as Thompson.
When he saw it he would comment on the miss-spelling of his name. which inevitably had the ops officer call out to one of his staff 'Task the 'P' out of Thomson.'
Nice bloke though.