Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
Yes, I've read a reference to taking the pip pins out and turning the ladder over. That way if worst happened and the door needed to be opened in flight, the ladder would fall away and so not get in the way of the crew baling out (which I believe only happened once).
Fortunately the crew that opened the entrance door instead of the bomb doors on the fly past following a scramble for an RCDS display at Waddington had stowed the ladder. Didn’t stop the Nav Radar eventually making Air rank though. Losing the ladder would certainly have ruined his career prospects
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