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Old 10th Jan 2008, 16:10
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Rossian
 
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Marshalling stackers

I do remember that in nineteen-hundred-and-frozen-to-death a certain Pilot Officer stacker marshalled an Argosy wingtip into the door of the cantilever hangar at Ballykelly. Cut a very neat slit it did. The incident got airbrushed out when it became apparent that Eng Wg in it's entirety had ommitted to see that there was a movement that day ('twas a bank holiday I think) and that the youth was trying to be helpful and get the a/c offloaded and on it's way quickly. It was one of those "I learned about aircraft handling from that" events.
The Ancient Mariner
PS Those were the days when P.O. and F.O. errors were sorted out by the SNCOs (vide N Joe's earlier post) and junior officers learned a lot the hard way.
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