Firepower demos at Warminster were truly (and I use this word in its real meaning) awesome!
I hadn't been on MAOTs very long when I did an AMF exercise in Otterburn. 7 Sqn did a demo of a poorly slung load, and deliberately deposited a clapped out SWB Rover into the peat from a hundred feet or so. That was quite impressive.
I've got some stills somewhere from the the same exercise of a LR/trailer combo that resulted in a Wokka wheel-size dent in the roof of the Rover. Caused by the Wokka descending a little too far to release the tension in the strop.
I spent many, many hours on Everleigh DZ on night flying, watching Chinooks and Pumas carry the same concrete filled drums round and round. I think they lived at Odiham, so they'd have been brought from ODI to the Plain every night. I wonder if any ever got jettisoned on the way to SPTA? Those'd make a hell of a bomb. Might cause some improvements in Andover
