A bit late in the day to put the intake blanks in
Ahh tail strikes.... One I remember was night flying at Upavon when they stuffed it in with a young WAAF in the centre seat.... after a couple of rotations it stopped and she didn't realise that they had been in an accident despite seeing the hangar...hangar...hangar... whizzing past, the crewman checked the tail rotor blades with his torch and it was initially looking good as the blade was intact where he started , but they got decidedly worse as he went around them all, then the give away was the hump in the transmission covers where the drive shaft had decided enough was enough..
The other was a certain Hyphenated Wing Commander, he of toppling Wessex fame i believe, who having stuffed the skid in at Odi on his Puma course more or less accused the Rigger on his turnround of missing the skid hanging off, as well as his crew assumedly on their preflight etc, it then followed some poor beggar having to drive all over the airfield looking for the tell tale sign of a strike!
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