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Old 9th Mar 2013, 13:48
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Discorde
 
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From post #39:

The F/E had his own throttles. When kids came up, it was fun to get them to talk to the throttles and tell them to go forward or back one by one. The look on their face when they did it was lovely- the F/E stifling a grin as he moved his.
We could do a similar trick on the Britannia B732 – the heading bug on the HSI could be rotated by a foot positioned on the footrest. So we would brief the visitor on the 'voice-controlled autopilot' and invite them to call 'turn left' or 'turn right', surreptitiously tweaking the heading bug as appropriate.

Besides Roz Hanby there was also the gorgeous Hilary Smith, another Miss Speedbird IIRC. She would turn up for her PPL lessons at Booker wearing tiny denim shorts . . . (sigh) . . .

Most beautiful (subsonic) jet airliner? Silver to the VC10, gold to the Caravelle (which had the Comet's nose).

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