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Old 28th Jan 2013, 13:11
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Four Wings
 
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Aden Airways again: they lost one Viscount of course when it was blown up on the ground during a 24 hour quarantine period. After the bombing of the DC3 (Nov 66) all aircraft had to be quarantined for 24 hours before flying as it was reckoned the terrorists' timers were limited to 24 hours. The system worked. They lost a Viscount.
I have to say some AA pilots did tend to show off - I was invited once to the cockpit for a flight to Jeddah (1964). On approach the Captain called for all eyes out to find the Jeddah radio mast (allegedly the only marker) whilst he gently yawed left and right to give a wider span of the horizon.
Yawing became obvious when one of the stewardesses was flying (not infrequent). You always knew (as a pax) if it was Chrissie Chambers - very attractive but quite small, so she couldn't really reach the pedals.
And of course when it came to desert storming in the C47/DC3s quite a few pax stories....
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