My memory is shaky but I think the standard practice was to switch on the ignition in severe turbulance at altitude. Didn't the F/E have those switches under a plastic lid in front of his thrust levers?
Like you Chris I converted from VC10 to B707 and conclude as you...we said it was liking a Rolls Royce to a wheelbarrow. The one contention about the wheelbarrow analogy is that the B707 front wheels sometimes didn't even come down...twice I had to manually lower the nose gear, but I never had to use the 'Hudson' bar...anyone remember, or use that?
edit...sorry, just had a senior moment...the gadget to manually lower the main gear was called a 'Johnson' bar...now where to hell was it stowed?
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