One of the loads I do you remember,
I was quite a junior navigator
I was flying with the scooter boss
who went onto
and he didn't fly much.
because when you're the Squadron boss,
doing other stuff as it is.
Unfortunately, I found out in latter life.
so every time it was a good looking trip
he's like, well, I'll do that.
I'll. I'll get some hours in I’ll
And then that'll be made done
And there was a,
a job that came up
that was up at RAF Spadeadam
and, of near Kielder water.
And that's the main electronic warfare,
that we've got. Great place.
and what they’ve got, it caters
guys the fast jet guys and the helicopters
disused aircraft relics.
museum pieces of various nationalities
them from, but some old, old jets
from 60, 70 years ago,
And every now and again.
Because everyone starts
So they’re no surprise anymore
So we'll do the to to move
And so we were tasked to to come up
one of these jets,
and move it
somewhere else such that
came through, perhaps bombing a runway,
and different things
And so this had all been rigged up
except when it was rigged
normally they, they do something to,
to stop this from happening,
such that
when we started flying away with this jet
the jets went through about 40 or 50 knots
and the jet did what it was designed to do
So on the strop below,
And I remember the crew was like,
yeah, it's getting a bit close,
and so that the guy at the front,
certain things you can do
thinking of having close formation
It's moved around was different.
I think the next time they did,
So it didn't want to fly.
That's Yeah, that was that was different.
That was.
