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Old 9th Sep 2007, 08:30
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Art Field
 
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Further to the fuel burn problem, not only was the Vulcan maintaining formation for most of the deployment but every time it refuelled it went back to max weight and therefore to the top of the burn rate. This was so different to the set piece percentage fuel loads they were used to that they found it difficult to adjust to the need for very precise fuel planning. In mitigation everything was happening at such a fast pace,

Being really picky, the Belize deployment was flown by the first of the Victor K2's, mainly crewed by 232OCU staff.
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