Most people thrust their hands downwards when the trawl for Thrust SSC came around the squadrons. To give 'Dog' his credit (the 'Dead' was dropped at that point as most thought he was going to cop it in Thrust SSC) both he and a few others put their hands up and volunteered. When 'Dog' got the job there was a certain individual that came in one of the 'runner up' slots that found it hard to take and started to try and break all sorts of records in the Tornado F3. I heard that he went super quick at low level and then turned his attention to zoom climbs. I hear that as he got towards 70kft the poor old RB199s gave in and had a bit of a cough and splutter. The result was a couple of rather bent engines and a sacked pilot - I understand he was nicked when they pulled the accident data recorder and milked it!
All anecdotal as I wasn't on the Wing where this individual flew. Luckily for all it didn't end as badly as it could have.
LJ