And the Captain went back to flying eventually - instructing on the Gazelle
I flew with him at RAF Shawbury for an hour on 30th May 1990. As we walked out to the Gazelle, he remarked that the ******'s had given him the furthest aircraft from the hangar again. A couple of minutes later, he apologised for the noise as we walked out.
It took a while to realise that he was referring to the fact that he had a missing limb and the replacement made a noise. It didn't make any difference to his flying, as we went through GH and PFL's at Tern Hill and Chetwynd before some confined area ops and a PAR back into Shawbury.