Originally Posted by
NRU74
Taking this thread a bit down market...
Masirah to Gan (after a fairly ‘heavy ‘ night.)
Half way up the climb in a Victor K1A, Captain says I’ve got a bit of a problem !
Fuel tray in the ‘Up’ position JB exits the LHS,we empty the ration box and he has a touch of the ‘green apple quicksteps’ into the box helped by a few superfluous plotter’s charts.
Ration box placed on the bomb aimer’s window, heat turned off so it freezes over fairly quickly.
Only need oxygen for about 20 minutes until the atmosphere is.., er.. OK
Land at Gan and explain the problem to the groundcrew.
Been there, done that in a Vulcan. Plotter was a bit pissed off because the emergency bog paper was torn off from his chart and we hadn’t flown that bit of the route yet!