RE HMS GLASGOW AND HELICOPTER
I am saddened by that news as I respect all pilots and god rest his soul, but at least the flight was not forgotten, and it was a particularly special flight considering the potential margins of error. The radome damage on the other hand was not underestimated as it had to be removed from the ship in scotland and taken by escort with it being so big to Stevenage to have a halfords repair kit job done on it and then put into store. The cost of that alone amounted to £80.000 which the MOD was none to impressed about. I also had to attend a brittish aerospace head honcho meeting where they were all very reluctant to become involved about the repair cost until it was pointed out that this event was not going to go away. On the other hand the tail wheel cost a couple of hours to sort, but the original wheel is somewhere in the evidence chain along with the skid marked radome section both of which I caried around for some weeks during the inquistion. I still find it humerous to this day and it just epitomes the spirit of aviation