Come now BEags, I think we're rather wandering into the realms of the fanciful, wouldn't you say? You'll be telling us next that an SEngO managed to get airborne in a Lightning on a taxy check, having accidentally gone through the reheat gate and found he couldn't get out of it. No doubt you would add, for dramatic effect, that he had the canopy open and the pins in, which would have been just as well seeing as he wasn't strapped in! Time to come down to earth wouldn't you say? Which I guess is what the SEngO had to do, though not on the same short runway from which he had got airborne. Case of the proverbial black eye and feather in the cap syndrome I guess. Now see what you've started! Thread retrieval, Thread retrieval, Go!