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Old 26th Aug 2015, 16:12
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ORAC
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Courtney Mil will probably remember the rusty old knobs and tits on the F-4 centre pedestal left over from mud-moving days, which we air defenders never used. Apart from one chap, that is, who moved something and lost his tanks, or similar.
Centreline tank - out of LU in Delta fit on a CAP. Bored nav was explaining how they made the switches to drop instant sunshine when he was on muds. Talked pilot through sequence, pilot pulled trigger - and tank dropped to high pitched scream from front seat. I was assured there was some semi-serious discussion of declaring an emergency and clearing all the stores before they fessed up....

I was the FA and told Ops XX was RTB Charlie fit - "no, he's Delta", said they. 'not any more", said I.....

IIRC they checked they rest of the fleet - they were in the only jet where the wires hadn't been cut IAW a mod......
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