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Old 30th Jul 2007, 08:04
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Evanelpus
 
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Most of the Vulcan was relatively easy to maintain, with two exceptions I had particular interest in maintaining.

Some of the components in the hydraulic panel area aft of the NWB were a nightmare to get at and change. Wirelocking them back was even harder, quite a lot of them claimed my hand and lower arm skin.

The other area that caused me probelms was a fuel coupling which was situated aft of the upper air brakes. We had to take the panels out and I was fed upside down and backwards with the c clamp spanner to tighten them tied round my neck to perevent losing it if I dropped it. Once got into a bit of a panic and it took my fellow workmates nearly 2 hours to extract me from the hole. That's the problem of being young and thin, sadly, not the case now!
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