Borneo Stories
The weighing of Gurkhas has substance in fact - but not in Borneo. A sqn cdr in Cyprus bought several bathroom scales and got his crews (then flying Sycamores) to weigh the troops before emplaneing them. In this way he could maximise payload offered. He became known as 'Bathroom Scales P*&^%' to differentiate from 'Tail Rotor P*&^%' who acquired that epithet for obvious reasons of banging the backend on the ground.
As to the Javelin/C130 story there is again an element of truth (sorry to contradict NutherA2). At Labis (Sep '64) the Indons dropped a load of paras from 3 Hercs and these duly fled back across the water to Sumatra and one of them (flown by Indon Foreign Minister Subandrio's son) believed he was being pursued or had been 'painted' by somebody and flew into the sea. The story of the search for and 'elimination' of the incursion, which resulted in the death of Major Richard Haddow and the disappearance of the Indon Sgt Maj Wogiman is for another day.
At a place called Long Bawan, south of Bakalalan, an Indon C130 was chased by a Javelin or Hunter which found the C130 coming the other way up a valley. Everybody did a quick 180, followed by the Brit doing another 180 and the C130 fled across the border and crashed on the strip at Long Bawan. It was still there sometime later.
Turning to Jig Peter, the border was generally taken as the ridge line. The aerial survey was started by 684 Sqn in 1945 and was still being worked on by 81 Sqn 18 years later. Of course the locals completely ignored the border but as we treated them generally better than the other lot, we benefitted from their trust and friendship.
Great Times
O-D