I must say, the start to this thread is one of the funniest things I have ever seen about flying. Many thanks for that, brightened my day a lot.
May I add a favourite old Bev story ? It concerns the first time it visited Aden, for trials. It departed with the rear doors off for the first trip and the ATCO, who had not seen this beast of burden before, called the pilot urgently “You’ve taken off and you forgot to close the rear doors”.
The cool reply : “Yes, thanks, I know, I can’t get the b****y gear up either.
The nav could go to sleep on his nav table, bit different to the V Force.
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