We pulled the Gnats apart up in the main hangars and stacked the wings upside, this prat in charge, some flying officer had us stack them on the grass upside down and then tie them down so the wings would not fly off in any wind…… LOL the fuselages were then dumped on the airfield by the woods…….. Our course as we finished in the Hangars prior to going down to the airfield were given the job of destroying the Avons so that they couldn’t be reused prior to being sold, we were given big GS screwdrivers, Hammers and Sledgehammers, I can vouch how tough an Avon is, even wielding a sledge on the cases just resulted in vibration though the sledge’s handles and pain….. swinging them into the compressors was a similar result, but we wrecked them eventually.

Having come off Jags and a short period on the MU I found myself requested to show the Instructors how to mount the Adour replacements on the build stands thus reversing the role 🙂 alas we didn’t have the sockets to pull off module one at the time, but I showed them how to do it.