I once had the great pleasure of a 12 hour flight in one of Her Majesties Shacklebombers from RAF Lossiemouth. I somehow managed to scrounge the trip whilst up there fixing a bent Hunter, anyway I digress as usual! I met this chap in the mess the night before the flight, who it appeared was to fly on the same patrol. After a few refreshing "half and halves". He explained he was from the Met Office doing a study into Cu. clouds. He hoped to get some good sightings, but, "didn't travel well". We did the full 12 hours, North Sea mostly, a fly past at Church Fenton ISTR. I took loads of photographs of Cu's for the met man, he spent most of his time being friendly with a honk bag !!! What a great aircraft, crew, and poor old Metman. Graham was his first name, if he ever made it to military forecasting, I doubt he scrounged trips !!!
Smudge
