I didn't get back to Brize on 109 though, the icing on the cake was being offloaded at Bahrain to assist another GE with what turned out to be a flap assymetry problem. While we waited for a box to come out from UK I didn't think it prudent to mention that if his crew hadn't been so keen to take 109 back, and we'd had a proper handover, we could have taken the box out of my tech pack instead of watching it disappear into the sunset. Happy days.
I remember the line going out to do an engine change in Dulles that was taking for ever, excuse after excuse was coming from them and then the LSS got a phone call paid by the bod out in Dulles so as not to go through official channels asking if possible could we put the engine lifting beam they had forgotten on the Thursday? Washington run
Love the pics of 109, though 10 Sqn did not like the refuelling probe fitted to them as it "spoiled the lines."