Mt Alice Fighter Control Radar Relocation 1984

[pedroalpha]

Many thanks ORAC, the crew estimated the load as 11.7 tonnes. Somewhere there is a shot of the Chinook fuselage showing the skin distortion once the load was off the ground.
pedro

[AR1]

Originally Posted by Bunker Mentality

The bit about preferring to stay on the mountain was very common. I hated MPA, which I thought was a cold, soulless, unfriendly, self-absorbed nest of utter nobs. I went to Byron for my R&R.

You did. With me.

Found out old 303 OC Mike Clulow passed away not too long ago. Lovely chap. RIP Mike.

[chinook240]

Of interest, the Chinook recently doing the Gibraltar Rock radar lift in this article, ZA680, was the same airframe as a Mk1 that did the Cape Orford to Mt Alice lift nearly 38 years ago. I spent many a flying hour building the Mt Alice site as part of OP TANTARA.

https://theaviationist.com/2022/03/0...q9jH3seooQ3QTE


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