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Old 16th Oct 2016, 13:12
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papa_sierra
 
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I attended one of the open cockpit evenings at the RAF Museum at Cosford a couple of years ago. (To be recommended, really enlightening).
Most of the open aircraft had an attendant to explain and answer the inevitable questions.

The Twin Pioneer had as an attendant an ex RAF NCO who had served on them in the Far East and regaled us with tales of the aircraft being fitted with a very high powered loud speaker system. It would appear it was to be used to transmit propaganda to the bad guys below but was in fact never used for that.

It was however used as a very good taunting system on the other resident squadrons to good effect. Ribaldry from the skies !

No doubt an email to the museum would uncover the gentleman.

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