Which, though crude, is rather safer than the problem which happened on an early Buccaneer....
Jolly matelot decided to trust his hand at prodding, since the jet proudly sported a shiny new AAR probe. Find Victor, frighten it with a wacky join, cleared astern, stabilise, trim, watch the references, slight addition of power, stabilise, clunk, nice contact, green on, fuel flows....
Or rather, call astern, hoof on the power and chase the basket. But make contact all the same.
Hmm, thought our fishy friend, no more fuel showing in the master or slave tanks - silly old buggers in the Victor must have porked up. Disconnect and slope off back to the concrete boat and will have a dig at the crabs later.
45/25/25, 20psi blow, mirror on, 86+ HP, steady and steady lows going beeeeep, boop, boop on the ADD, thud, hmm, seems a bit of a firm landing even for a Bucc.
Taxy in, fold wings, roll bomb door, shut down, get out.......
A few minutes later, the jolly jack tars fold the nose to put the cab in the shed - and about 1000 lb of fuel pours out.
It seems that the dockyard maties who installed the probe were from a different team who were supposed to install the plumbing from probe to fuel tanks.
Never mind, I'm sure that a fuel-cooled Blue Parrot was no worse than an air-cooled version.....
