Thud and Blunder
Yes, I remember Brian from his initial Puma course, and then on Chinooks, we seemed to cross paths often over a period of approximately 15 years and got on well, I was posted from the rotary world onto Jags in Germany and sent on an exercise at Wegberg, who should turn up flying us "casualties" into Wegberg but Brian, he was as surprised to see me as I was to see him and we had a brief catch up on the short flight. Later I was posted to Brize on the VC10 and went out to get a 10 on the front ready for departure, I found Brian sitting in the dark as Loadmasters were oddly not allowed to put power on, we had a long chat and I would often see him and catch up until I left the RAF, such a loss and a better man you could not meet.
I thought the ships crew wanted to shove the Chinook over the side to free up room, hence it didn't stay long. BN's original door washed ashore some years later and was recovered I believe.
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Last edited by NutLoose; 7th Mar 2022 at 14:46.