Khormaksar
Bit off topic this, but I've only just come across it, and it was the Khormaksar Brit that led me to it...
Quote from Herod in post dated 2nd Jan 2009 "Yes, 78, right up until the final minute; midnight 30.11.67."
On the offchance that Herod might see this, we must have been together on Intrepid for a few days then. My very last flight on 78 was from that deck to Sharjah on 4.12.67.
And if Brakedwell sees it, I shared a room with a 105 Nav for a time - learned a little bit about engine out drift down and stabilising altitudes from him. And I well remember the guy who dropped the army underslung from his Wessex when he lost one engine - you could bend the tip of a 10th stage compressor blade on an eroded gnome with a flick of a fingernail.