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Old 22nd Feb 2013, 09:44
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ian16th
 
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Surely that dustbin radome is retractable for T/O & landing?
It was supposed to retract, but I witnessed one disintegrate at Luqa in 1959.

The radome had failed to retract, the crew did a spanner job and removed the scanner et al, and then landed. The radome was the first part of the a/c to touch the runway. It disappeared in the preverbal puff of smoke.
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