Bts70 Enjoyed your spider story. Reminded me of some camel spiders that were brought back to AFPSU in parachutes for repacking. This caused such a fuss. London Zoo were brought in and the place had to be fumigated. Not sure if the same was true of the packing shed PEF at Brize.
AA62, yes you are right about the pedigree of the books. The 11C1 was hilarious in parts.
When I was at JATE circa 95 got a bit involved in straps/strops to hold troopers to the lashing rings on the floor in choppers. Not very crashworthy but better than nowt. I know efforts are being made to make the A400M seats crashworthy. What happened to plans to bolt old VC10 seats to 463L pallets?