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Old 13th Nov 2007, 07:24
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Wiley
 
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Was allowed to clamber through one waaaay back when during one of the Victor's (I think) rare visits to Ozmate. A seriously beautiful aeroplane to look at, even sitting on the ground - and mean, with that dark green upper fuselage and duck egg blue underside.

However, we were all more than a little intrigued by the bail out provisions made for the three back seaters - out through the nosewheel well... But no one said how they were supposed to jump at who knows how many hundreds of knots and remain clear of the rather substantial nose wheel strut immediately aft of the hatch (if the gear was down), or get out at low level.

Still, it had the desired effect of giving us yet another reason for wanting to pass pilot's course. The pilots had bang seats, the navs whatever they called the electronics operators down the back, a hole in the floor. Not that a single one of us thought then that it should be any other way.

I seem to remember them teling us that the output of the genes (that ran all the electronic wizardry on board) was as much power as was needed to power the City of Bristol.
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