And another one....
.....during an Open/Closed Gate thingy out of Gib in a Nimrod2, an F18 pitches up on our starboard tiptank. He calls his carrier (with whom we were cooperating)
"It's like a concrete coloured airliner with blue and pink roundels, it's got tiptanks and a big dome thing on top of the fin, any ideas??"
I couldn't resist
"We are a Royal Air Force Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft cooperating with your Mother, should you care to check. Marks out of 10 for aircraft recognition? - Not very many! Now go away and do something useful!!"
He rolled rapidly away at warp factor 9 in silence and was not seen for the rest of the sortie.
The Ancient Mariner
He may also have been shocked into silence by the sight of one of my wet men's bare arse wedged into the stb'd beam window. Not a pretty sight!