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Old 8th May 2003, 08:19
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Loose rivets
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Luxury!! We had to use the same load sheet all day long - with the sectors in different colours, just to save paper.

Apologies to The Fringe.

Tell you a true tale though. BAC 1-11 out of LHR. Sunny day, New skipper in the left, me in the right. Both of us were on our first unsupervised flight. Trim was done on a swizzle wheel with chinograph. Skipper nervous. SOPs not unlike today, but he got his knickers in a twist and put hand on power / tiller, then both on controls, then one on tiller… etc. etc. until at Vr, he had one hand on tiller and one on power levers. The, then new, 1-11 rotated itself and settled exactly at V2 + 8. Why all this new technology with that sort of accuracy achieved with a couple of discs of plastic?
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