I was on the GRSF team at Laarbruch from 1974-77.
Definately the best days of my service career.
One day while driving the Section wagon
(you know the one with the custard stirrer for a gear stick)
up the taxi way towards CADF, I noted the arrival of a Charlie 130
on a pan near the ILS array. Being the concientious tech I
paced out the distance and found the aircraft to be seriously
infringeing the quarantine guidlines. So effectively the ILS
was now out of calibration. I alerted my boss to the infringement,
possibly C/Tech Buck, who then passed the info on to SATCO.
The result was that the aircraft handlers decided to back the
aircraft further on the pan. It might have helped if they had
used someone to properly marshall the manoeuvre as the C130 port wing
made contact with a pine tree and rippled the wing. Oh yes,intitialy
SATCO tried to blame me.
Does anyone remember the day when all the copies of
Laarbruch Listener hadto be censored with a craft knife, when a picture of airmen in and on a MT Mini was printed. Just how many airmen were invovled in the game we'll never know.
As the numbers game went wrong when the body shell buckled and the
vehicle had to be written off.