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Old 6th Dec 2014, 19:29
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I seem to remember there were a series of bleed air failures at around that time.

I had a double start valve problem at Gib leading to an abort just before V1 with the concomittant shut down of the Nos 1 and 2.

Then there was the time we got airborne from LYE rapidly followed by a BANG! - the duct from the GTC bay had exploded (the Eng on that was Flo Jo).

I also seem to recall another leading edge bleed duct failure that peeled back the stbd wing inboard of the No2, but which happened in the cct at LYE.
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