Were the "bus stop" and "waiter" in the radio bay also part of the "Doddy" affair?
Remember what was written on the hangar roof?
RAFP stood under it for years in blissful ignorance!
"Gibbo" was having a (nother!) bad day at the Yellows, overslept, woken by Ops.
Collects kit "on the hoof" as he passes: Rifle, LSJ, toolkit, navbag, helmet, etc, etc.
DA was "Challenger" and as "Gibbo" rushes past:
"Gibbo what time do you call this"?
"Bloody quick time Sir, I were asleep 10 minutes ago"
He settles into the back of the already running "cab", reclines on the seat and sleeps.
"It seemed like only a minute later and we were there, the troops opened the door, closed it, sat-down, strapped-in and tapped the pilot on the leg, then we took off"
Hardly surprising it "only seemed like a minute", it was!!
They were collecting the ARF from the camp at Aldergrove!
lsh
