Not exactly hairy but I was lucky enough to be onboard the Nimrod MR2 (XV254) as we arrived for RIAT 2006. Our Pilot, good lad, arrived in style with a very loud run in and break but managed to overstress the jet doing it. We we're greeted with great applause and wows, with 1 american aircrew mate asking us from which museum did we fly in from!!! Does anyone have a vid of it? Apparenty, CinC Strike (as it was then) or ACAS or some other highly ranked pop star was underneath said arrival and really saw his a#se about it. We did have to fly back to ISK with min crew and legs down!
Anybody got the vid? I've seen the photos on t'interweb but would love a video if it exists!