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Back around 1993, I managed to blag a slot on C1+E course at Leconfield, when the allocated student from my unit threw a sicky. (Sometimes you're in the right place at the right time). When I got there I found that I was going to be training on the TK tractor with a Scammell-coupled flatbed. Needless to say I had a tremendous time bombing about around home turf, and as a SNCO, being treated like an adult rather than a sprog. While the ticket might have been useful, my career took a different turn, but I was pondering - what happened to the wagons and trailers? Are there any still about?

I followed the recriminations to this event on Pprune, and a couple of other aviation forums. If you look, you'll see that the pilot concerned has contributed his perspective. I just hope that this inadvertant event won't prevent future fast taxi runs.

........and all user-maintainable, after you'd done the NBC Instructor course. :evil:

Nope, the cab slid about 50 yards missing everything and everybody. We just laughed it off, but I don't think he ever tried it again. Cost him more than a few beers at endex though.

I've sat and watched a Scout slide down a hill with the rotors turning, while the pilot was in my CP trying to find out where he was. Fortunately, the cab missed anything important. Like the bowsers.

Having taken part in the flypast which supported the parade through London of troops returning from Op Granby, perhaps I can offer a perspective from the participant's POV? Despite a challenging mix of types, from all three Services, and in weather conditions which sometimes meant that we lost sight of the element in front of ours, we were proud to have been there, to show our appreciation for not only the troops, but also the public who, at that time, had supported our Services. I wouldn't have missed that opportunity for all the tea in China.

Usually I had a full set of 58 packed to comply with a kit-list, just for inspections, and a roll-pin belt loaded with S6/10 haversack and water-bottle pouches, and a Berghaus 'Munro' daysack. The full set stayed with the Flight G10 truck and the rest was carabinered together and and secured under the seats on the Lynx, or stuffed in the boot with all the rest of the junk we carried in Gazelles. I used the same set-up when I was a driver/sig in FFR Rovers and Sultans, MK Bowsers and RL/MK G10 wagons, but as I stayed with the same Sqn for 13 years, ground-and aircrew, I guess they'd just got used to my idiosyncrasies. Oh, and don't get it wet; it doubles in weight.

Zedding in the back of a CP Rover one exercise I heard a sharp double 'bang', followed by a whining noise which sounded like one of our Scout engines winding down. I couldn't have been that asleep as I could remember that we'd got rid of Scouts some years earlier, and that the last time I'd heard a double bang like that it was at an airshow when some fast-jet chappy had ejected from his aircraft. As the whining noise got closer I decided that I might not be best placed should my worst fears be realised, so struggled to escape, only to find that the zip on my 58 maggot jammed, about 6 inches below my nose. Have you ever tried hopping away from a gliding, pilotless F16 in a maggot?

Hi, and thanks all for the warm welcome. Sadly, the only photo I have from my days in DPM is a posed photo of me, a Lynx helicopter, and a number of nurses, taken on a training weekend in '94. Despite my wife's protestations, it hangs on a wall in my study at home.

Greetings. I’ve just joined the forum as I wanted to find some information on Bedford MSC in RAF use as a GS Tender. Browsing through my book collection I spotted what I assumed to be an MSC in Chas Bowyers book “Bomber Group At War”, showing some aircrew climbing into one at RAF Waddington, early in the war. To give you some idea of my background, I’m ex-Army, learned to drive on TKs at ASMT (as-was) Leconfield before spending most of my career in BAOR, initially as a Driver/Signaller Groundcrewman before moving up into aircrew positions. Back to the MSC; can I assume that this is a rare beast? I’d be grateful if any members here could recommend a source for further information, as there’s little on the web. I’m toying with the notion of cobbling together a reasonable facsimile using a suitable chassis (MW?) and K- or O-type cab. I’m currently in my retirement job in the North Atlantic, so rushing down to the local library isn’t going to be an option for a few more weeks, so if there are any good pictures on t’internet I’d be grateful for a heads-up. Failing that, if I can a) persuade the missus, and b) get one down the lane to my house, I might settle for a TK – just for old-time’s sake. Thanking you in anticipation. Andy