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Old 17th Feb 2018, 21:51
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This thread has just come to my notice so I am late with my comments.
My father was a RAF weapons specialist (observer brevet) and was present at Christmas Island and Woomera for the British tests. Family lore had it that he was in the crew of either a Valiant or Canberra at Christmas Island that was tasked to fly - depressurised, through the mushroom cloud to take air samples.
Of course he died subsequently from multiple carcinomas.
He too was ordered to be on the ground another time to witness an explosion and his brief was to face the other way until he heard the bang and then turn to look at the result.
Pedro
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