Had a pretty close one on the back of an RAF Hercules, we hit severe wind rotors in the Falklands just after we took off, aircraft was all over the place, captin screaming down the headsets doesn't inspire confidence
, missed the floor by about 50 feet as the downdraft was so severe we lost 700 feet in about 10 secs, a combination of luck and skill saved the day, really did think our numbers were up that day
....Quite sobering..
And had a fucking close one a few months ago, I was in Kandahar airbase, Afghanistan. We were out servicing one of the Hercs, doing engine ground runs after a burner nozzle change. Finished the job, and drove back in to the office. As we walked in, all we heard was a "WHOOOOOOOOOSH"
(as the rocket flew over our heads!) then "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" We all hit the deck as we are trained to do, waited for the attack to stop. The Taliban fire 81mm rockets into us
, they have a lethal blast radius of about 90 meters
(basically anything inside that area gets shredded!). Well, we went out to check for any unexploded ordanance, and damage to anything, and the aircraft we had been working on had been hit doing a fair bit of damage to it......
5 mins earlier we had been stood there. Scary shit
