I thought it was about a T7 or joy of joys an NF14. Can you imagine using clapped out F4s or F3s for that matter as nav trainers? Bloody brilliant.
14 hours in a meatbox.
MURROWSKI - OK, the exercise is over. It's hot. We climb, we cool off.
"Fuel, oxygen, balls in the air."
"Relax the exercise is over."
We are now down at nav school minimums in a rapid climb to 20K.
"We can't do loops with tanks o o o o nnnnn "
Errrr!
FOB
"Relax the exercise is over. Every done a barrel roll? We can't do barrel rolllllllllllllllllllllllllll s with tanks on."
And so it went on for bloody ages. Don't know we did for fuel.
Following week:
G-Homing exercise. Get it right, keep inside the curve and you got back in time.
KENT - OK the exercise is over. We can't do aerobatics with tanks on.
""............"" "".....................""
Then OK Nav, where's base. BASTARD.
"Down there off the port wing tip"
"Well done"
East Anglia in the 60s couldn't miss. Ground was full of bloody airfields.