Welcoming 4 x Il-62s to Brize when Gorbachev came to chat with Maggie....then having coffee served by what we first took to be a Rosa Kleb clone - but who turned out to be a jolly matronly type who was i/c several delectable little stewardesses!
Watching 40 KGB peeps in identical macs disappear off to the Gateway for lunch - and 39 come back. They'd missed no. 40 having a leak in the loo and mistakenly left him behind - but the spooks thought he was snooping!
Asking a Russian if it was OK for the AOC to come and look round his Il-62.
Flying BBC, ITN etc....and TASS in a Vickers FunBus to welcome 2 x MiG 29s to Farnborough.
...and watching Scampton and Abingdon and Wattisham being abandoned to their fate as the RAF pulled out.
But learning that Kelvin Rucksack was going to be Stn Cdr at the Covert Oxonian Aerodrome was probably the biggest shock of all time!