Originally Posted by
oxenos
Kinloss, winter, mid 60's. Stores run out of de-icing fluid for the Shackleton, which had a system of pumping the fluid out of porous strips on the leading edge of the wings and tailplane.
Supply Officer could not understand why there was not enough. He had (allegedly) looked in the Autumn at how much had been used in the previous quarter and ordered accordingly for the next quarter.
Presumably to him it was just another Section/ Ref. No.
Similarly in Mount Pleasant in the late 90s, no de-icing fluid available because the Supply organisation in the UK hadn’t actioned MPN’s order as they couldn’t understand why it had been ordered in summer!