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Old 9th Aug 2009, 19:01
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Rainboe
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Thank you Sir, we have hairs on our chests! We used to put a HS748 to bed each evening there. In the morning, I used to be surprised it was still there sometimes! To get the snow off it in the morning, we used to be see-sawing a firemans hose along the top of the fuselage. I used to feel completely dead-cold from the waist down in winter, until they installed the amazing modification, a switch-controlled lady's hairdrier under the instrument panel. It would take the airconditioning system 26 minutes to vaguely warm up the cabin- the first leg was about 25 minutes, then the great front door would be swung up and the place would freeze again! And the pilots used to load and unload bags, coffins, lobsters and whatever.

But it was fun.
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