MAINJAFAD,
Brilliant, now;
"Drags and R57 (funniest thing I saw with that one was the expression on the face of guy who forgot that the U in WULF actually needed an action by the pilot in that aircraft after he found the cockpit was a lot lower to the ground that it should have been when he came to a much faster and bumpy halt than normal)."
Your amusement might have been at my expense. I wheeled up R57 on my first flight in it. As I always said afterward, I preferred R36, gear welded down, no mistakes, but the "wheels up" with the Astir was exactly as you described it. I knew I was in the poop when the only person to walk to the aircraft to assist was Ben Benniston, the CFI. Back on thread then chaps, and apologies.
Smudge
