A Different Lightning
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From: down south
It was not a Rolls Royce problem.
It was the feed system from the jettisonable ventral tank on the F1, F1a, F3,
T4, and T5.
The F6/F2a and the "big ventral" export versions did not have this problem since the tanks were integral.
It was the feed system from the jettisonable ventral tank on the F1, F1a, F3,
T4, and T5.
The F6/F2a and the "big ventral" export versions did not have this problem since the tanks were integral.
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From: Surrey
Ah, LM I wish. A cut-in-half empty 44 gallon oil drum under each wing of our F6s in the hangar just about filled up with AVTUR each weekend, to the extent that if it was a bank holiday weekend someone had to come in and empty them on the Sunday afternoon...
It seemed to me that every available cubic inch of structure in the aircraft was a fuel tank, and one by one they all took it in turn to leak. Hence my joke about the recce pod. And you are right, Mr Rolls-Royce's Avon 300 series was a paragon of virtue by comparison.
It seemed to me that every available cubic inch of structure in the aircraft was a fuel tank, and one by one they all took it in turn to leak. Hence my joke about the recce pod. And you are right, Mr Rolls-Royce's Avon 300 series was a paragon of virtue by comparison.
