Nimrod MR2 Out of Service Magazine - Stories, Photos & Dits Wanted

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Foam Strip landing

For the record, it was a CXX crew that landed at Leeming with the nosewheel stuck up. Capt dear old Ken Maynard (RIP) as stated, Air Eng. Dave Bidgood, my golf partner. We all took the p***s afterwards, firstly for not taking out the pressure swing with the DMCV when the front door was opened. Second, for not realising that he could have got the n/w down if he had taken a fire axe to the appropriate hyd.pipe in the hyd. bay. It only took the Engineers' section a few hours to work that out from the manuals!!!