RAF firefighting museum closing
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Or the VC10 ground run I was on at Brize when the IGV's let go during a slam check, the engine surged, spat flames out the front end, the turbine out the back and up the detuner resulting in a metal mushroom shaped shower, you couldn't read a guage in the cockpit and even the line office could feel the ground shaking, with fire alarms going off and the engine not responding to throttle imputs, we chopped it and dumped the fire ex into it... the lad on the long lead departing from the scene reckoned it stopped within a couple of revolutions from 80 odd % RPM.....
Getting out and wandering up to the fire engine parked out front (required on high powered runs) I asked the said Corporal "did you notice anything strange?" "That was noisy and I could feel it through the fire engine".. "Ohh I says, so did you see the flames coming out of the intake and the turbine coming out of the detuner, closely followed by the whole aircraft rock as it seized solid"....."Bugger.... I have been a fireman for 19 odd years he responds, and I have never had a real aircraft fire, and when I have one, I am sitting about 20 foot in front of it, I miss it"
Or the lads on a max diff run when the recirc fan in the cockpit burns out and promptly fills the Ten with Hydrogen Cyanide smoke, donning the crew masks they go onto oxygen and call out they have a fire onboard over the radio... Trumpton responds, Guy running it says to outside man whatever you do stop the firemen getting near the doors as we are still at max diff... Firewagon turfs up, outside man standing at the bottom of the steps more or less rugby tackled by the fireman as he charges up and tries to open the door ( Not that he would be able to) outside man eventually recovers and pulls him away explaining that if he managed to open it he would be dead.. I believe after that they were briefed about the dangers.
But there when you need them
..
Getting out and wandering up to the fire engine parked out front (required on high powered runs) I asked the said Corporal "did you notice anything strange?" "That was noisy and I could feel it through the fire engine".. "Ohh I says, so did you see the flames coming out of the intake and the turbine coming out of the detuner, closely followed by the whole aircraft rock as it seized solid"....."Bugger.... I have been a fireman for 19 odd years he responds, and I have never had a real aircraft fire, and when I have one, I am sitting about 20 foot in front of it, I miss it"
Or the lads on a max diff run when the recirc fan in the cockpit burns out and promptly fills the Ten with Hydrogen Cyanide smoke, donning the crew masks they go onto oxygen and call out they have a fire onboard over the radio... Trumpton responds, Guy running it says to outside man whatever you do stop the firemen getting near the doors as we are still at max diff... Firewagon turfs up, outside man standing at the bottom of the steps more or less rugby tackled by the fireman as he charges up and tries to open the door ( Not that he would be able to) outside man eventually recovers and pulls him away explaining that if he managed to open it he would be dead.. I believe after that they were briefed about the dangers.
But there when you need them
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Why is the hangar at Scampton no longer available?
I believe that it is needed for use by the Air Show organisers following the transfer from Waddington to Scampton.
They used a hangar for storing the vehicles and had a museum with smaller exhibits in one of the office buildings - it's the latter that was needed for the airshow organisers, so they had to pack up the small exhibits. The vehicles are moving to the new site as there is room there for both.
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"Museum of RAF Firefighting", normally only seen when the Civvie Fire Service goes on strike and the collection of Green Goddess antiques are deployed.......
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You would have thought they would be an asset for the airshow as the RAF are normally pitiful these days at displaying anything... I went to Cosford a couple of years ago and that started with a "flyby" down the runway of the fire section vehicles followed by the medical section vehicles followed by the Padre... I thought then, yup, they are desperate for anything to display, and it turned out to be the case... It was pitiful and embarrasing.
