I was a mere RH Para door occupier during a det in "the Gulf" in the build up to GW1. As was our Captains wish, we regularly did fighter affil with both MB133 ? and a Hawk, flown by a smashing exchange pilot from the RAF. On one such sortie, we were accompanied by a couple of AD lads, who had strapped a bloody great Gimpy onto the middle of the ramp. Well, the Hawk got in behind us in the turn, and up close, at which point, the ramp was lowered and the Hawk pilot got a face full of Gimpy. His reaction was a serious pull and, in his own words in the party room that night, an over stress of the aircraft. This is the bloke who delighted in slipping a gun camera picture of my LH Para door position bang to rights, under my room door. I promise, I'm still looking for it, it will be posted.
Captain Sensible, read the book, bloody nutters the lot of you !!! With the greatest respect
Smudge