I was SAC Plonk making up & attaching banners at Brawdy (as well as helping look after Sir Winston & Lady Clementine) in the mid 1970's when the Phantom detachment visited to do their bit off Hartland Point. Most flags arrived back untouched but a couple were totally shredded, always by one Sqn Ldr G. Lee.
Puddy also took a bullet through the rudder of Clementine before I left for Halton, a flight that I should have been on but my TAG went sick so had to go out to the runway for the launch & (later) recovery.
Would be interesting to know how many runway lights were obliterated by errant flags, well remember watching in horror as a wheel came off a flag at mega knots & started bouncing towards the aircraft parked on the VAAS pan & ATC, thankfully a well placed divot sent it carrering into the bondu to the north - cue one lengthy incident report & change of overalls
