I'm led to believe that the standard stowage for the internal bay was 4 X 1,000lb HEMC. Pretty much at all times.
Not strictly true! 2xWE177s was a standard fit but I much preferred 2 aircrew holdalls and a sunny destination outbound and 2 aircrew holdalls plus 19 demijohns of Kokinelli inbound
. Because the bomb door rotated open rather than clamshells, the demijohns were placed upside down on the open door and their stoppers sealed with bodge tape. That way, if a stopper did pop at 36,000ft, the demijohns were upright and you didn't lose the contents of your demijohn as long as you checked them by entering the bomb bay by its inspection panel (well, before they fitted the bomb bay door tank that is) before rotating it on arrival back at base.
Crates of oranges and lemons from Akrotiri and dozens of boxes of wet fish and King Prawns from Lossie, Kinloss or Macrihanish were routinely shipped to the squadrons in Germany.
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