Following the tanker round, the Buccaneer pilot approached for his second dry contact but, on appreciating that his speed was too fast, drew back just as he was level with the drogue which, on striking his probe,caused the hose to snake round and the drogue to hit the Victor. The drogue richocheted off the tanker's fuselage, struck the Buccaneer's canopy and wrapped itself around the fuselage.
Do you have a source for that, Toffeemark? I was a K1 nav radar/refuelling operator for neary 6 years and cant imagine how the drogue could strike the Victor's fuselage. It's not the way I heard the sequence of events described at the time, but as I dont have chapter and verse I better not give the version I heard as it may not be accurate. Anyone know what the BOI version was?