Bromet Trophy Winners
1998 -
On 8th April 1998, Flight Lieutenant Steve Main, an instructor with 208(R) Squadron, was flying with a student on a practice diversion to BAe’s airfield at Warton, when his student reported he was encountering a control restriction in pitch. Steve took control and verified the situation for himself: the aircraft was now seemingly in an unrecoverable descent and heading for a large built up area, so ejection was out of the question. He put the aircraft into a gentle turn out to sea so that he could safely ascertain the prospect of recovery. He decided that, with landing gear and flaps lowered, he could control the aircraft’s attitude by varying engine thrust, so flew a shallow straight-