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(in my day the helios had the callsign PEDRO and the fixed wing topcover was PLAYMATE so you see how long it's been)
Now that's an interesting throw away line! In the BoI for the Sea King mid-air tragedy on 22/03/2003 it was reported that the inbound ASaC requested, "Where's my playmate". The ever helpful good folk at MOD have always said since that he was referring to his o/b oppo. Given what you say above, is it not more likely that he was referring to his fixed wing top cover?