SPIN
Long after I had left the RAF and when I was involved in displaying vintage/veteran aircraft at air displays, the officer assigned to mentor me in the ways of the RAF Officers’ Mess at RAF Leeming(?) was a Tornado navigator called “Spin”. He was fairly short in stature.
At the end of festivities in the Mess on the Friday evening before the display, transport to the hotel was late to pick up those of us left behind. Spin told us that his wife was en route to the Mess, and he had arranged that she would drop a visiting French display pilot and me off at the hotel. In thanking her for providing us with transport, by way of light conversation I asked her the origin of his nickname. Was it perhaps because he liked the sensation of spinning? Not so, she replied, he was the Shortest Person In Nato.