Originally Posted by Scruffy Fanny
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Thanks for re posting - must have been a tough det - amazed the RAF broke the aircraft down like that - quite a few books stated that the RAF Had never actually taken a Lightning apart in service - well i guess that proves them wrong !
They did another one as well out there, as well as putting it all together beforehand - as the squadron T.5 XV329 had been shipped out to Singapore in bits in '67, put together and then stripped down and shipped back again at the end of the det in '71. Unless these assembly and disassembly tasks were both done by contractors and not the RAF?