Originally Posted by
Rigga
K&C said:
"Rigga....surprised to hear you've met some who didn't know what an aileron was because they were certainly taught the theory of flight...and relevant control surfaces / effects."
Well, the subject person probably was told that at some point but with the majority of training aircraft in the 90s being 'unconventionally controlled' and, as previously mentioned, spending his career to that date on the Tornado fleet, when a Hawk parked overnight in our team slot he genuinely queried why one 'flap' was pointing down and the other one pointing up...A few of us looked at him twice and then I took him back to those controls surface basics.
When I left the RAF pump screwdrivers were still to be found - in Stores - used for opening wooden transport crates the necessary.
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Only thing they were any bloody good for was opening STC's. Reminds me of flying out to Turkey from Lyneham with a load of spares, tool kits and a Jaguar engine door in its STC. The bloody movers (bag chucklers) decided that a thin plywood shod STC was a prefect place to stick hundreds of kilogrammes of baggage on top of it. That the STC could not support. Stores at Colt were livid when they got the STC back from Turkey and it arrived back to us to be conditioned. My comment was "You should have seen the ****e they put on top of it!
I used a cordless screw gun on my aircraft yesterday. Nice piece of kit and the first time I have used our new addition to our line station tool board.. Actually cordless drills are almost mandatory pieces of kit used in Civvy base maintenance.