Further to Top Bunk testers recollections of Cumberland bay, We used to fly a figure of 8 pattern with the nav watching the starboard wingtip clearance from the cliffs, the co-pilot counting the range to the glacier and me aiming for the Gemini.....this was in a developing blizzard coming off the glacier. We did 6 runs in all...with a bloody great russian factory ship abeam the drop point. Didn't miss once!! Comment from rigid raider..."thanks guys you've got bloody great big ones!!"
Incidently I was asked by senior pongo to deliver some spares to SG. I asked what was in the box....electronic valves and light bulbs!!! He seemed to think there was a landing strip on the glacier!! Soon disillusioned when I told him they wouldn't survive a sea landing but I'd try to drop them into the Gemini for him!!
P.S. regarding my last post it was a free drop from 150' ish...supposed to be 250' but that was too high for accuracy in a confined space.
