Heli1: X-Ray vision indeed!
Grazie Griffo! Does this mean the Navy flyers had to work just that little but harder for their pay?
John, thanks for the clarification.
Geoffers wrote:
I can remember being winched out of the sea on completion of my WDD by Boss Spelling (CO of Brawdy SAR) off St Davids in Pembrokeshire. Such was the marginal performance of the WW7 that even though I was then a mere 14 stone (happy days) reeling me in actually wound the aircraft down into the sea so with my nerves frayed and the front wheels submerged I was unceremoniously dragged from the oggin.
Still .. better (one supposes) than being dragged behind a US Mail plane!
American antics from times past .. involved this chap being towed by holding onto a rope!