nasca
I was on 100 Sqn in the early eighties and did a lot of target towing. It was dull, boring work so I am not sure I can offer much of interest! We towed air-to-air targets (banners) for the Lightning and F-4 guys (I think all of our jets had the banner attachment and release mechanism so we would have used B2and E15 for that role; sleeve targets (a bit like a windsock IIRC) behind a TT18 for the Navy 4.5 inch guns down on the South Coast and Rushton targets for the Rapier firings at Benbecula (we would be detached to Kinloss for this). As the nav, it was my job on the latter task to press a switch to deploy the target (I seem to remember it unwound to 19 to 20 thousand feet behind the Canberra), monitor the tension in the cable then press another switch to wind it back in after the firing detail. As the Canberra turned away from the firing point (with the target still heading inbound) you could usually see the Rapier in flight but that was about as interesting as it got.
We had a LOT of fun on the sqn in those days, but it was not flying related -
