[No-bars Simpleton]

Tally-ho Chaps! I say - was on duty last night and what an eventful one it was!

Got the mayday at twenty-one hundred!
Poor old Salty was on patrol when he was jumped by a gaggle of Mitsubishis!!!!!!!!! They must have a new cloaking device! Need the "Boffs" onto that one sharpish!

Anyway Chaps, he instinctively executed a very tight turn - so tight the centrifugals went pear-shaped and to buggery and the motor was starved of "glug" just at the wrong time! The sideways thrust gagged the nylar composites and you can guess the rest! What!

Lo and behold, the internals put on a right show and met the tarmac with a clankety-clank! Fortunately Salty had ducked into low cloud and mist and was able to cruise to a halt undetected! Spiffing manoeuvres what!

Anyway, he was straight on the horn to me at "Control", and I dispatched a Tribeca (think Thunderbird 2) to recover him before the enemy had a chance to seek him out. Bish Bash Bosh I can tell you! Scrambled "Green Wing" in a trice to provide escort and got his "kite" back to the workshops sharpish, pronto, and pretty damn quick, I can tell you!

After a weetabix and a steaming brew, Salty should be right as rain, and I expect an update from him when the "Boffs" have checked the damage.

Sadly he may be "non-ops" for a while!!!!!

Messages of sympathy from both operational pilots and Tactical Mayhem Team are allowed under these special circumstances.


Simpleton out............................................