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Pontius Navigator
OldBricks, not just the gleaming towers. We went mad with black and white paint for an inspection. We ran out of black. As we used it up we added more and more thinners. Eventually we just had black thinners. It dried as quick as it evaporated.
Nil desperandum; as the inspecting officer approached a corner all the manholes around the corner got a quick coat of thinners. Black footprints followed the AOC elsewhere.The
James, any story will be incomplete without such futile irrelevances. It was also a time of discontent in the Services with cancellation of projects such as Skybolt and TSR2 and the bulk of the aircrew on shorter service commissions up to the age of 38.
Love this. Cancellation of TSR2 very much in the story - along with rear crew discord at lack of ejection options in V-Bombers.