"This mark had different Nose Gear and Nose Wheel Steering for carrier operation"
This caught the above mentioned pilot out, in , if I remember correctly, late '83
Squadron was 43, operating mainly ex-navy F4K, not the later F4M's
The above person was our 'new' CO, and would take a twin sticker, XT875 I think, for a last flight before joining the APC in Cyprus. I was line NCO, and saw the plane out. A few mins later, I heard the reheat being selected, and shortly after an horrendous screech and two bangs!
The pilot, (no names!) had got caught out by the 'slow' NWS, and put the plane sideways down the runway at about 100kts, blowing the tyres and writing off two mainwheels and brake units, and stressing the landing gear!
F720 entry read something like "NWS runaway"............