Flyco wrote: ↑22 Aug 2020, 09:17 Shane, over in a couple of minutes! Not if it's a 13 hours sortie from Fairford to Bahrain. Nor a 'quick' force deployment to Ballykelly, followed by a 6 hour hold, with a dozen other C-130s overhead Brize Norton waiting for the fog to clear.
Ah! those were the days.
Takes me back to p minus 7hrs for Parachuting at Brize fm Aldershot
Arrive Brize Norton
Draw and Fit
Sit and wait in the Rub Hangar
Met check, is there a hole in the cloud somewhere over Salisbury Plain
Is it a Friday, if so , The Herc has a square Wheel, Officers Mess Happy hour
Parachuting cancelled
Return Aldershot.
Yes those were the days,