Seeing off a VC10 full of passengers the Pilot informs you the final engine, No 1 engine will not start, you pull a safety raiser over under the Engine, jack it up and drop the door, using the same jacking handle you lay into the air start valve with relish and are comforted to hear it move over and the engine wind up, closing the cowl and crouching down you glimpse up to see an aircraft full of worried passengers faces glued to the window watching you beat the crap out of their Engine........
Seeing off a VC10 full of passengers you find the towbar pin is stuck in the leg, so taking the tugs towbar pin you proceed to beat it out of the hole, on the intercom you hear the pilot explaining to the passengers of a slight technical hitch that the engineers are presently rectifying over the noise of our efforts echoing down the cabin like lucifer banging on the gates of Hell..