Vulcan Memories
Also Bush Mills (MWN) was known as Mike Willy Nan long after Mike Whisky November had replaced said words in the phonetic alphabet.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Scorpion, the R110 had the larger film magazine for recce purposes. I thought the R110 was limited to 543 Valiants and Victors.
When we went from 5 to 4 man crew on the Victor the nav plotters central position became the primary nav station, facilitated by a single sideways sliding seat to allow access to the starboard panels. The refuelling panel was repositioned on the opposite port side and operated by the AEO.
Victor B2 and B2(R) also had a side scan mapping facility. The H2s scanner was locked at 90 deg. to Track. The resulting "flickering line" time base on the Ind 301 was also fed to a second CRT contained in the RPU (Rapid Processing Unit). A roll of photographic paper was motored over this second CRT at a speed proportional to G/S before being fed through developer and fixer tanks. This resulted in a roll of B&W photo map info. Possibly the worst job for NBS fitters was to drain and replenish the RPU chemicals in a crowded cabin.
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I take it that this was an 'improvement' on the heat sensitive 'bog roll display' that was used on Blue Shadow in Canberra's.
At Akrotiri we had a Blue Shadow bench, if the contrast was turned up too far, the paper burnt.
From what I see on Supermarket tills these days, the technology has advanced since the 60's.
At Akrotiri we had a Blue Shadow bench, if the contrast was turned up too far, the paper burnt.
From what I see on Supermarket tills these days, the technology has advanced since the 60's.
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Blue Shadow Rolls
These paper rolls were highly impregnated with a wide variety of chemicals. If used as emergency bog rolls they had very painful effect on nether regions. Personal experience on 249 (GoldCoast) Canberra B16s.
Also had to be kept in sealed plastic tubes til needed for use because if dried out were even more useless than normal.
If injudicious use of dividers to measure distance of returns (to Stbd only), then the 1600v sitting on the writing bar certainly removed the euphoria of operating cutting edge equipment.
Also had to be kept in sealed plastic tubes til needed for use because if dried out were even more useless than normal.
If injudicious use of dividers to measure distance of returns (to Stbd only), then the 1600v sitting on the writing bar certainly removed the euphoria of operating cutting edge equipment.
Victor B2 and B2(R) also had a side scan mapping facility. The H2s scanner was locked at 90 deg. to Track. The resulting "flickering line" time base on the Ind 301 was also fed to a second CRT contained in the RPU (Rapid Processing Unit). A roll of photographic paper was motored over this second CRT at a speed proportional to G/S before being fed through developer and fixer tanks. This resulted in a roll of B&W photo map info. Possibly the worst job for NBS fitters was to drain and replenish the RPU chemicals in a crowded cabin.
Could be right there, only have Vulcan B2 and Victor SR2 experience, but the 543 Sqdn Victors had the Radar Processing Unit directly behind the Nav Radar. Long time ago!!
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...never saw a fairy getting his hands dirty!!!
