BigBlueCar wrote:
"...we used to go from Belize to Florida once a month, to top up the stn LOX supply"
Ahh, the Homestead LOX run!!! Fond memories of having to go along for the ride just in case the loadie needed help to push the bulk LOX pot out the back in a hurry.
as if!
Also,
- Belize, in general.
- Watching Lightnings go vertical from the runway at night.
- Ligntning Lineys with singed berets.
- Getting 7 days Jankers for 'consumption of alcohol' in a barrack block.
- Making sure that I didn't get caught again.
- Being served beer on VC10s.
- Blue 1250s.
- Blue overalls.
- Spares on the shelf.
- Enough blokes on shift to fit said spares.
- Lean being something that you did on a wall.
- Meeting the EngO, now as a fellow Flt Lt, who once wrote 'Cpl Brat has reached his career ceiling plus one' in an ACR (only discovered once F6000 were unlocked from PMAs vaults).
- Job satisfaction.