Then there was the another AOC story (forget who it was attributable to)..............The AVM normally arrived at zero-zero feet in his personalised blue meteor, a split arsed circuit, land and commence the inspection.
The parade, facing the runway, were intrigued to watch a venom approach from some distance and perform an immaculate landing sans landing gear.
As the thing skidded to a halt, the fire landrover driver rushed over to the pilot slowly extricating himself and yelled,
" You c**t, the AOC is about to arrive !!!"
" Sergeant," pointing at his epaulettes,"I AM the AOC !!!"
(His meteor had gone u/s and he'd borrowed the venom with which he wasn't very current !)