Originally Posted by Pontius Navigator
Aircraft now needs defuelling before it can go in the shed. Wether attrocious Looking Glass airborne and on AAR/Divert so no empty bowsers. Eventually system dried out, refuelled, hot to trot - Goose out. Next day Offutt out. Eventually, at Goose, HF u/s. Unable to fly across pond without HF.
Vulcan on QRA early sixties. I have definite recollections of sitting on top of a nuke to replace the STR18 HF aerial coupler which had gone phut. Once commented to friend who replied "So Dr Strangelove wasn't all fiction". <grin>