Aha the MRD
Lindholme, winter 69/70. All 6 co-pilots were on a shift rota to operate the radios in the MRDs. A 3 man operation, a tanker driver, a MRD operator in a little cab between the jet engines and a radio operator to talk to ATC, in the tanker cab. We trundled up and down the runway most of the weekend.
Come Monday the blacktop was clear, the weather was CAVOK but we did not fly because no one else in 1Gp had wasted their weekend and so we had no divs!
We never bothered again.
It's true they were really good at changing snow into sheet ice and the MRD then shifted the sheets of ice like a giant paint scraper, only, as above, with considerable force.
Twin Derwents ex Meteors IIRC.
Slight thread drift but 2 of the Hastings at Lindholme had come straight from Colerne when the Herc replaced them, so a slight connection.
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