dragartist, not just the finest hour for Astral Box, but it must have been one of EWAD’s finest hours too. For all the new mod’s that went onto the aircraft, we, along with the aircrew had to learn how to operate and maintain them pdq. Boz, MAWS, GPS, Havequick, etc are just the ones I remember. We certainly had some interesting debriefs from the Nav’s as they got to grips with chaff and flare.
Unfortunately, the spares situation was not great. I can remember the decision being made to swap aircraft on one morning see off. Not an easy decision as we had to swap both INUs, both TACAN Tx/Rx and I think two pedestal and aerial combinations.
S-D