1986, MPA about to become RAF Mount Pleasant. Departing Tri* has on board members of the Falklands' Families Association, and is taking off in a substantial cross wind. Loud bang, plume of flame and the jet stops on the runway, just. Taxies in on 2 engines and the BA Station Engineer leaps up a ladder and announces the surged engine is siezed - until someoned gently suggests turning the compressor, rather than the static bit at the front (inlet guide vanes?)!
That evening and the "cross wind" is now a gale. Aircraft is parked at upwind end of pan for a ground run and OC Eng takes the left hand seat and starts the "seized" engine and starts running up to full power. Cue Duty Supplier in the freight shed who sounds the attack alarm, claiming bullets are coming through the walls of the freight shed. No, it's not bullets, it's gravel propelled by the Tri* engine at full thrust, followed by a severely bent mains electricity pillar and bent walls to the freight shed. Exit very quiet OC Eng, and there was not even a UI!!