Another JJ story
Swinderby, EFTS course on the interceptor T10 Chipmunk. JJ pitches up in the mess with a kids three wheel plastic tractor. The fun starts and the game consists of the driver being pushed by his mates down the mess corridor in the accomodation coridors towards the end wall. The aim of the mission is for the pushers to reach max speed and the driver to stay with the tractor as long as possible before ejecting before fatal decceleration occurs.
This has been going on for a couple of weeks and on the weekend the SDO is the squadron boss who lives to far away and will there for be in residence for the weekend. Saturday night in the bar is long and enjoyable and mention of the tractor arises. So at some time after midnight the boss say "JJ get the tractor". Well with top cover the said tractor is produced and the double doors either side of the mess entrance are pinned back. So after a few demonstration runs the boss declares that it's his turn. So we all get behind him and start to push. All goes well, we pass the door from the bar and through the first double doors into the mess entrance. Now at this point a number of things happen, first of all terminal velocity is achieved and the front wheel developes a shimmy. All would have been ok if it was not for the fact that the senior wives of the base had just decorated the christmas tree that morning.
Now we thought that we had done a very good job of putting it back as we found it, apparently not. The boss got it in the neck from the CO about the behaviour of the students.
Last edited by flap15; 27th May 2010 at 12:32.