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Old 19th Jul 2018, 18:13
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The Oberon
 
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Originally Posted by goudie
At Scamptom when The ‘V’s we’re white we had large canisters of Wadpole. We’d form up, on our knees, line abreast and get polishing. That’s when you realise just how big the Vulcan wing is. If night flying was cancelled, that’s how we’d spend the night shift. Aircrew never pitched in, as they did on my Sqdn in Germany.
Untill a tame rock RSO ran his geiger counter over a tin of well used Wadpole. After that, power washing only.
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