Originally Posted by
Danny42C
À propos of nothing in particular, the honour of the attempted asymmetric roller to end all asymmetric rollers should surely go to the Middleton Ghost (name forgotten) who, seeing he was going to go off the far end after an attempt at an asymmetric Meteor landing at MSG, whacked open the good one and described a wide arc through the camp before meeting his own room in the Mess, through the window of which he inserted the nose.
Might have got away with it, too, but the aircraft took out a lot of the supporting brickwork, and (in the words of John Henderson, an ATC oppo of mine, in the Tower at the time: "The lintel fell on his Swede").
John was later SATCO of Teeside airport (MSG that was). Seems the stude's Ghost haunts the West Wing of the (now) St. George's Hotel to this day.
So the story goes.
I kept looking for that nice fellow while living there flying for Bristow out to the Ekofisk in T-Birds.
The only thing that scared me there was the thought I would get the wrong wake up order....and find myself looking at a Glass of Warm Milk and Smoked Kippers.
It was also said what a nice Chap he was for seeing that not only was it his own room he destroyed...but also his automobile in the car park as he passed through on the way to his room.