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Was unfortunate to witness my first degloving at Wyton cira '79 or so. Canberra again, fitter decided to slide around and down the engine coaming.

Not nice, not nice at all. :yuk:

I have never worn a ring, not even in scaleydom and cividom beyond.....

And however high you fly, however much of the Right Stuff you have, a ring can get you - even on the ground.

Quote:

In 1978, Armstrong severed the ring finger of his left hand when his wedding ring got stuck on a latch at his Ohio dairy farm. Rather than scream or run, Armstrong found his finger, iced it, drove to the hospital and had it reattached.

From Bloomberg's online obit of Neil Armstrong.

Although one has to say his reaction was most definitely The Right Stuff!!

surely the wristband isn't the problem - its those rosary beads on a thin bit of string which could easily break.

My father - who spent the war as a mechanic (and lost an eye when a rim spreader shattered) - would never wear a ring nor a metal watchstrap. Ignoring such patently silly advice, in my early 20s I managed to weld the metal watchstrap to my wrist when I arced it between the +ve terminal of a 12 V car battery and the –ve Earth strap.

Ouch!

At least it was a rather fine MkII 3.4l Jaguar. Red, too. Same colour as the recently-cauterised flesh on my wrist.

Some years later, when I used to take SP out on RAFSA yachts, I was insistent that necklaces, rings and watches with metal straps were removed. I had previously seen a bowman on a yacht have his index and middle fingers pulled out of his hand (along with the sproingy tendons) when a ring got caught on a highly-loaded spinnaker clew.

But getting back to the OP, it does look a bit gash, but to be fair, Capt Wales typifies the delightfully languid approach Cavalry officers tend to take about things (remember his hair at the wedding?). Give him a break, he’s doing a job mere mortals could only dream about ie, killing his Granny’s enemies!