Vulcan Items
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Vulcan Items
Shown on the Vulcan To The Sky for sale website is an item for 'Fathers Day' which is causing a bit of head scratching. Can anyone identify the item and say where it was located and for what. It was I believe also fitted in the Victor B2. Item is Variable Airspeed Unit Mk 3 selector switch.
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IIRC it was fitted in the cabin roof just to the right of the Nav Radar, next to his dangly grab handle.
I remember being called for a crew in snag where Nav Rad says VASU problem, I said what problem, and he says 'I haven't got one!', I looked and he did have one, but the hangar team who had been working in the cabin had swapped the locations of the VASU and Grab handle. The Nav Rad was used to putting his arm up and hitting the correct spot in the gloom everytime, it never occured to him that it could be elsewhere.
I remember being called for a crew in snag where Nav Rad says VASU problem, I said what problem, and he says 'I haven't got one!', I looked and he did have one, but the hangar team who had been working in the cabin had swapped the locations of the VASU and Grab handle. The Nav Rad was used to putting his arm up and hitting the correct spot in the gloom everytime, it never occured to him that it could be elsewhere.
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Page 79, item 23 on diagram, shows the location of the component.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https:/...tCnlL7WSdES5Zx
https://www.google.com/url?q=https:/...tCnlL7WSdES5Zx
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Originally Posted by sitigeltfel
Page 79, item 23 on diagram, shows the location of the component.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https:/...tCnlL7WSdES5Zx
https://www.google.com/url?q=https:/...tCnlL7WSdES5Zx
