I knew Max Collier from Cranwell and many years later bumped into him at Goose Bay. I was a C130 pilot looking after the AOC on his annual visit there and then on to Red Flag. We flew into Goose and the real crew flew the aircraft on the next day. The AOC was looked after elsewhere and I was stuck in the Mess on my own for 4 days. Max befriended me and I was grateful for his company in the evenings.
Again, a few years later I got to Akrotiri to be told that my crew was being held to fly a repatriation flight back to Brize. That was the one that Max was on.