Anson gently trundleing from Finningley to Mildenhall at 3500 ft in and out of cloud
when a JP, in descent, flashes across the nose at about 50ft, close enough to see the
colour of the pilots bone domes.
Canberra on an army co-operatation exercise in Borneo when the FAC's Corporal decides to fire a smoke mortar to assist us. It passes close enough to the nose to see
the mortar round before a split second later we flew throught the smoke trail.
Victor Tanker with a Bear D to the west of Ireland when my captain, unwisely, decides to fly in the refuelling position close line astern of the Bear. Bear duely drops
a sonobouy. We can read the lettering on it and it probably passed between the fuselage and the tailplane.
VC10 refuelling Leuchars F4s on an exercise when one decides to show off on
departing the tanker by leaving in full burner across the nose of the tanker. About 100 ft in front of the tanker which has another chick plugged in!!