Warriors become Top Guns for the day



Kelly "McGillis" Brown and Graeme "Maverick" Morrison (Picture courtesy of glasgowwarriors.org)
Glasgow Warriors Kelly Brown and Graeme Morrison prepared for Scotland’s opening 6N match by taking over the controls of a flight simulator at RAF Leuchars today.
With their Edinburgh counterparts, Craig Hamilton and Geoff Cross, Kelly and G-Dog (right of the picture) prepared for Scotland’s opening match of this season’s RBS 6 Nations tournament against Wales at Murrayfield (Sunday, 8 February, kick off 3pm) with some top-gun antics.

The players met up with 43 Squadron and showed off the Calcutta Cup, but the only wings discussed were on the sides of aircraft.

G-Dog enjoyed the experience and said: “It was a great day out and very interesting. Afterwards we were complimented by the guys who actually train the pilots; they thought we were good pilots.”

“I would love to go back to RAF Leuchars with some other trophies in the future - then maybe they will take me up in a real jet!”

Geoff Cross, the 26-year-old Edinburgh front row forward, admits he also thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

Cross said: “I loved every minute of the entire experience. Sitting behind the controls in the flight simulator was unbelievably good fun.

“It was also really interesting chatting to the pilots about their roles and finding out how everything works.

“I did the worst loop-the-loop in the flight simulator, but Kelly (Brown) managed to fly his jet underneath the Forth Bridge and Graeme (Morrison) ended up landing his jet in the water.

After testing their aeronautical skills in a Tornado F3 simulator – designed to train real pilots – the Scotland squad members had a tour around the base.

At the end of the visit, the players were presented with a framed picture of a jet complete with a good luck message for the team ahead of the RBS 6 Nations

This article was posted on 5-Feb-2009, 13:34 by Hugh Barrow.