Taff , ‘fraid it’s a civi .
23/10/1973 . Beagle Husky D5 G-ASNC , gas ‘n go .
My 1st job at 20 , aerial photography for Airviews [Mcr] Ltd . Task was Hi level FL100 ish timed vertical shots of a N Wales river .
Nearest field for gas ‘n go was RAF Valley , PPR arranged . Called up , descended in .
Tower’s clearance was ‘’ Report over threshold of disused RWY , NOT above 50 ft ‘’.
Wow , this will be fun thinks I . .... Lots of parked Gnats becoming large...
‘’G-NC , disused threshold ‘’
Tower , ‘’Hold there ‘’ .......................Thinks bubble ....
‘’G-NC , we’re not an Helicopter ‘’
Tower , ‘’ Sorry , We thought you were , join downwind Etc ‘’................
Taff , re your 707 and Palouste ..
BEA’s Tridents had the original Palouste APUs replaced with Garretts . The old Paloustes were mounted on VW microbus chassis’s as GPUs . For the Speys , we’d need one Palouste for a ground airstart . Seem to remember 707s and VC10s needing one as well , but Tristar , 747s needing 2 .
‘Tho , 25yrs later 2 Goan start carts could not give enough Huff ‘n Puff for a Tristar . They had to wait 24 hrs ‘til an Indian Airlines 737-200 brought in a long enough hose to plug into it’s P&W JT8 .
Will mail logbook scan .
Rgds condor .