Originally Posted by
Fitter2
Does anyone remember the Flt Lt Nav, name of Dmitri Victorovitch Zotov. (New Zealander, but Russian ancestry).
Posted to Boscombe on the Nimrod AEW project, where he lowered his already marginal popularity by insisting it could never work (nobody likes a smarta**e).
Appointed to be Station Security Officer by Winco Admin with sense of humour so he could introduce 'Dimitri Zotov, our Security Officer' to visiting yanks; joke fell rather flat because they all had names like that..........
As I remember he was decorated for his work on the navigation systems on Nimrod, MBE I think. He then absconded on his boat to New Zealand and became the leading AAI for New Zealand. Lots of info on Google.