Originally Posted by
Evanelpus
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!
I recall a similar incident in a Victor. The engineer had managed to manouevre his arm into the hole and reach the bit that needed reaching but there was no way he could get his arm out. I believe they had to deskin the wing panel to extricate him. Turned out that HP had never done that job in a sealed wing box.