arax dc4 yep i was there it was just about dusk when it came back from the test flt i should remember the captain? anyway we (in the hangar) heard there was a prob so everyone went out and he came in over ramsgate with 1 & 4 shutdown then it went quite wen he shutdow n the other two then a strange swishing sound as the aeroplane was in the foam!, vic surridge was flying it, the monkey on the stick had got on the wrong side of the hook all the linkage was worn and mankey!the raf wanted the runway back in something like 30 mins which was not pos so they came out with two iron fairys and put steel cables around the wings in between the engines and lifted!!! the cables cut through the leading edge and the flaps and falsework to the spar caps then dumped the thing on a bomb trolly very sad as the landing damage was very slight happy days at invictas we had the arax dc3 there as well then later i worked for them with the dc8 till they lost it in cairo
gs