Originally Posted by
Diff Tail Shim
I enjoyed Tornado, certainly as your telling of the story of Pete Rochelle recovering his badly damaged ZD843 back to Dhahran tied in exactly to the meat of the chapter I wrote in Dave Gledhill's Groundcrew Boys! Met and chatted to Robbie Stewart in the lobby of the RAF club one Remembrance Sunday, our Gulf War gongs being the ice breaker. I have ordered "Eject" but the wife will be saving it for my birthday next month.
An action Stew & Pete probably should have got an award for (of course Pete did earn a DFC in a later conflict).
This was also the sortie Bob & Simon 'Budgie.' Burgess were lost - both aircraft seriously damaged due to incorrectly fused 1000lb'ers which detonated immediately after release - they were all VERY lucky to survive.
Tragically of course, Budgie lost his life later in a truly horrendous Hawk incident. RIP old chum.