Originally Posted by
Ascend Charlie
There is an apocryphal tale of a Neptune on patrol, spots a US carrier and decides to fly a circuit to it.
On final, pilots see a bulldozer pushing a jet off the deck to allow the Neptune, obviously in a dire emergency, to land.
Power up, gear up, get the heck out of Dodge...
The tower at Soest gave landing instructions to a passing Lightning who obliged by doing a wheels down approach to the 800m grass strip.
Then poured on the power and disappeared into the wide blue yonder. Circa 1975.