Death Cruiser Flight Crew
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Location: Vaucluse, France.
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When I couldn't get a job airline flying, I kept the 'wolf from the door' air-taxi flying. I flew some people to Woodford one day, in connection with the programme to convert Victors to tankers. (By this stage Handley Page had gone bust, so the contract went to Avro, or Hawker Siddeley, or whatever they called themselves in the complicated process of amalgamation at the time.)
They were having problems, due (allegedly) to each each Victor being slightly different, having been virtually 'hand-built' - in contrast with the Vulcan, which was built on millimetre-perfect jigs ... at Woodford!
Was this a load of old codswallop, do you suppose?
Last edited by Georgeablelovehowindia; 6th Feb 2006 at 09:01.