Hi Prober,
I'll have to dig out the old logbook I guess, Blindpew says we were still using main gear airbrake in '72 so it looks like I may have compressed the timescale from our event to it eventually being removed as a facility. As a junior F/O I wasn't privy to any of the management discussions! I seem to remember it was Peter Harper, with whom I later worked a lot on BALPA's technical committee, who said DH weren't happy about it, but it's a bit hazy in the mists of time!!