Well, I've just spent the most extraordinary couple of hours trawling through the back pages of this very thread doing some research for a project someone here is working on and Oh My God, it was quite a trip down memory lane I can tell you! If you can spare the time I highly recommend it because this thread is full of more heart warming, funny, exciting and downright extraordinary tales and adventures than you could possibly imagine.
It's a really good read but has also left me feeling slightly sad and nostalgic for the old days ... we used to share so many tales and laughs back then. It's a pity (but also slightly inevitable I suppose) that we don't really do it anymore. As well as numerous rescue reports there are things like early astonishment that "this thing might actually have legs", our group excitement over our first mention in an FD newsletter, utter incredulity when we hit 1000 rescues and much MUCH more besides.
It also reminded me what an extraordinary group this is ... you're amazing ... ALL OF YOU!
There are so many things I wanted to share with everyone (again) but for me particularly one thing I was delighted to stumble upon (along with my
burnt letter of resignation to Surly Badger and the long range scanner reports of
Orange Sheets Buckyball Run to Sagittarius A*) was a report of what was one of my own personal favourite rescue missions which involved literally running across the Strand in London in order to be able to jump into the cockpit. You can see the full report of that one here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...he-Fuel-Rats?p=2616351&viewfull=1#post2616351
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