Beaver drop?
brakedwell I was there from May 66 to the end, so we just might be talking of two separate incidents - if so, we owe the AAC a bit more. And the contaminated jungle juice was definitely later, probably in '67.
I've just found this somewhere on the site:
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teeteringhead. 18th Jun 2012, 08:50
There was a good series of photographs in the 78 (Wessex) Sqn scrapbook which may still exist on 78 (Merlin).
They date from Aden (before my time!!) and seemed to have been printed from a cine film, as they were effectively a time-lapse sequence - of the lift (briefly) of a Scout.
Apparently the Wessex lost an engine in the transition with the Scout - overpitched and quite scary coning angle clearly visible - then Scout "pickled" and disappears from bottom of frame over 2 or 3 pictures as Wessex flies away. Cat 2 Scout becomes Cat 5 Scout!
Pilot alleged to be R****e B*****n?
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... which accords more closely with my memory, even the pilot's name.
(Beaver had it's fan on the front, Scout on top).
So we left a Brit off the end of Khormaksar's runway and a Bev at the end of Habilayn's. (My weak effort to get back on thread!)