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It's not just the mil types. A mate was captain of a BA 747 coming back from the States. He brought a golf driver and refused to put it in the hold as it would come out with a 90 degree bend it. Eventually he did as he was told and handed it to security who handed it to the captain of the aircraft on the flight deck. Also, while he was going through duty free, he passed a shop where he could have brought the same golf club. To complete the farce, he had it to security on arrival at Heathrow so that it could be returned to the rightful owner!
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I once landed a big green helicopter at a north London military airfield to pick up a second pilot, rotors running, to fly onward to RAFG. He had arrived by Landrover and was dressed in flying kit. The thoughtful and diligent movers had made him check in and given him a boarding pass and got a chap in a blue raincoat to escort him to the aircraft. The local expert tried to approach the aircraft via the tailrotor, so the pilot had to intervene and directed HIM round to the side. As he boarded, I was handed a brown envelope, all sellotaped up with a dinghy knife inside!
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You're not alone!
As a Herc mate coming back from a sandy det the jobsworths confiscated my survival knife from my hold baggage.
I'd been flying in my aircraft with it just 3 hours earlier.
As a Herc mate coming back from a sandy det the jobsworths confiscated my survival knife from my hold baggage.
I'd been flying in my aircraft with it just 3 hours earlier.
Gentleman Aviator
Many many years ago, Flying Officer Teetering had just delivered the command spare from the squadron in Sharjah to the other squadron in Bahrein (oh the happy dying days of the British Empire).
Couldn't get an aircraft to ferry back, so had to fly in the Argosy which provided a taxi service around the Gulf (Persian Gulf it was then).
Had me flying kit with me - knife didn't excite the movers, but the Mae West did!
Mover: (Pointing to Mae West inflation knob) What's that?
TeeH: It's what makes it work - pull the knob and it inflates the LSJ.
Mover: (triumphantly) Aha!! A compressed gas cylinder, can't take that on board sir, it's DAC (Dangerous Air Cargo).
TeeH flings Mae West to mate from other squadron who is staying in Bahrein and storms aboard the Whistling Wheelbarrow in grumpy astonishment........
Couldn't get an aircraft to ferry back, so had to fly in the Argosy which provided a taxi service around the Gulf (Persian Gulf it was then).
Had me flying kit with me - knife didn't excite the movers, but the Mae West did!
Mover: (Pointing to Mae West inflation knob) What's that?
TeeH: It's what makes it work - pull the knob and it inflates the LSJ.
Mover: (triumphantly) Aha!! A compressed gas cylinder, can't take that on board sir, it's DAC (Dangerous Air Cargo).
TeeH flings Mae West to mate from other squadron who is staying in Bahrein and storms aboard the Whistling Wheelbarrow in grumpy astonishment........
