Ah the Nitesun scaffolding...
I recall an occasion in NI when one of the EGOS (very) old and (not very) bold pilots was posted to the 72nd. 'Twas part of an Innsworth plan to spread the pain and extract from Shropshire those that had been there since Pontius was on 1 Sqn.
Said Salopian - a slightly built chap with a famously bad back who had once been the GTS PoF man - had climbed out of the RHS after his night sqn acceptance trip for a running change. He mucked up climbing out (
) and somehow managed to reach the ground standing
in the middle of the scaffolding ...... whereupon his back "went".
So he could neither climb up nor bend down to escape ......
..... in the end I think the replacement pilot climbed in and Walter Wessex had to lift off to release him.....
.... and yer tell that to the young folks o' today and they'll not believe yer.....
