PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - China Eastern in heavy turbulence
View Single Post
Old 19th Jun 2017, 21:44
  #19 (permalink)  
Loose rivets
Psychophysiological entity
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Tweet Rob_Benham Famous author. Well, slightly famous.
Age: 84
Posts: 3,270
Received 37 Likes on 18 Posts
Hmmm . . . the 60's and FL170-180 LHR Spanish destinations, various.

No WX radar. Night time. Two and a half hours being thrashed - several times the horizon bar went off the scale. Blood and sick on the ceiling. Thrown below OCL, then out of the tops only to fall back into the morass.

I had never known fear like it.

One of the snippets:-

British Eagle had sold the jigs for putting a pressurised bulkhead in the nose of the Viscount - to Marshals IIRC. nn,000 quid. When finally we were obliged to fit a (12" dish) system, Marshals charged us about the same amount . . . per aircraft.


http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/27011...ml#post3207786

http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/27011...ml#post3208304

Tell the kids of today . . .
Loose rivets is offline