Denge Dude,
when the Op Bushell was brewing up it was realised that out current experience of free drop was limited to the 'pilot's lollipop' singleton after dropping the main stores. I did one of the full a/c load free drops practice and it was very instructive for us all. In Ethiopia the ULLA drop configuration was adopted, 10 feet AGL, gear down. When we did Khana Cascade (Nepal) the drop SOP was similarly amended due to the height etc of some of the DZs. One of the a/c managed to scrape the rear bumper as it climbed away ! Sorry to hear that Bob is no longer with us. I remember him describing his first wet night carrier landing with the F4. Very scary.