Nobody seems to have mentioned the "Wobble Pump" which was mounted on the Main Gear Forward strut, Starboard side (of course).
Tiger mate: The picture is fine but "too tidy", the landing pads area was a mess..... the paths as I recall were not just paths on the ground they were rough board walks as mud was everywhere off the walks. The boards had a few nails sticking up which were perfect for tripping over too.... The view you have from ground level is almost the same lateral view as the colour picture I took from the air and which is displayed on the "Confrontation - know your enemy...." thread a couple of years back. There is another there also taken at ground level from the same aspect.
There was a small stream which cut acrioss the pads area and the bridge over it had rough handrails, rather like the rails you have by the chopper at the Hangar.
You need to put the tanned guys in shorts and whatever shoes they were wearing (with socks rolled down) and the odd dog waiting for the chopper to land as they would be in the vicinity ready to service the beast once it shut down. A zwicky pump with a guy holding the nozzle.... A couple of zobbits leaning over the HQ railing, to the right of the "RAF Nanga Gaat" signboard....
A couple of hornbills (nearly always in pairs) flying over wouldn't go astray either.
Tie up a couple of longboats in the Sungei Gaat, put up the framed lizard display on the left hangar wall, then the ever present young Iban lad named "Bunsu" looking on eagerly and the deer with the piece of fur missing off their throats, and the.....
Dave Billings
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