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Old 29th Apr 2014, 13:10
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sheppey
 
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The DC8 has done 8 flights BNE-INU-BNE now with last one on Friday
I hope the T-VASIS was working on Nauru for the DC8 landing. A bit tricky otherwise, especially at night . In days or nights of yore the T-VASIS was highly unreliable due vandals breaking lamps in the boxes with stones from catapults or jumping on the boxes. Beer bottles occasionally placed on the centreline of the runway were no help, either. Fosters beer cans reflected well in the landing lights. They would have made good emergency runway lights if someone had thought about it especially if the standby airport generator had run out of fuel.
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