When the Majors got to Abingdon in '87 we were somewhat a novelty, (and from the comments we got from the sleepy Jag/Hawk community, a bit unwelcome). The aircraft was big, (by comparison), brash, noisey and very much THERE!!!
All our flight tests/deliveries were by squadron crews, not station test pilots like the rest. So the first flight test went well and, on delivery, we asked the crew for a fly past, (if you see what I mean).
Although the head honcho said that this would not happen, we got one anyway, straight down the taxiway underneath the tails of the VC 10s, (all 6 of them), that were in line off to one side.
The complaints from the retired generals on Knobs Hill stopped that happening again but it was an execellent way of saying hello
