Originally Posted by
gr4techie
I was told Armourers are called Plumbers because the defensive guns on Lancaster and Halifax were water cooled. The gun turrets were hydraulically powered. Could be wrong though?
Airframes were are Riggers because WW1 aircraft used wire bracing and control rods which needed adjusting. The name might have came from the Royal Navy, as in setting up a ships rigging?
And the poor Leckies called Fog Dunkers due to one mans love for his Cpls pet Alsation.