First fast jet posting on XI(F) 84 - 87. Great times with excellent dets, APCs, MPCs (Valley
). Lots of incidents and happenings. After a tour on Lightnings I found that there were not many things that startled me. Always something going bang or catching fire.
Recall standing outside the Q Shed watching the survival scramble at the end of a Taceval. As the first jet thundered down the runway and got airborne off came the canopy and clumped the fin. Cue long line of Lightnings burning gallons of fuel and going nowhere whilst the errant jet was recovered.
Thanks to the Binbrook weather youngest daughter was born in an ambulance outside the Med Centre early one Feb morning in 85.