'Tis a thing of beauty and should be reverred by all that gaze upon it :)

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We used to burn heretics like you at the stake, at an old secret Wilts airbase :O

Well I guess you had to find the fuel from somewhere to fire the boilers on the "K".

Tell me why does everybody now find it necessary to refer to an RAF Airfrield as that "secret airbase in......"? Why not just say RAF Lyneham or wherever?

I take it he is referring to the fire handles? Would seem odd pulling them.

Didn't the Herc have 4 large lever looking switches just behind the throttles on the centre console. Automatic engine trimming system. Would they be moved after landing?

PN:
Perhaps, but if said manful pilot called "Cut" instead, things could get anything other than quieter as anything up to 72,000lbs of Hastings fell out of the sky onto hopefully all three points. The resulting crunch could perhaps be justified with the words "Tactical Landing", and anyway if you could walk away from it....

Irony, Sir, irony. There used to be 22 airfields in Wiltshire. Now there are still some but the 'former secret airbase . . . ' is used as opposed to 'really really secret airbase' which is still functioning not to mention the secret green job airfields.

Wasn't the 'secret airbase' line a quote from an MOD press release circa GW1?

Poor guy only asked a question. Love the responses, though. And the associated threads. Remind me NEVER to ask a question about Hers around here. But I can probably live with that.

Keep it coming!

One moral of the story might be;

Ask the crew while you are still on board

:rolleyes:

OMEGAV6 "You have me confused ... in just under 10,000 hours on the Hercules I don't remember any levers on the overhead console and I looked at it many, many times ...... I also don't remember anyone "getting up" as soon as touch down occurred .. mostly we were hanging on tight as the 2-winged master race put all 4 throttles to max reverse simultaneously - Ok sometimes in symetrical pairs - any other action being met by a swift response from myself .... no "levers" ever moved "in succession" at that point !!! "

I recall one route, can't exactly rememeber, but it could have been Grosetto, Tuscany.. As we approached the runway exit, I assume the plan was to shut down the outboard pair, as was common practice (K)... For some reason, the 2 winged master race representative on duty that day decided to shut down all 4 engines just before runway departure, hence the GTC was off, and we trundled off the runway in relative silence, before normal service was resumed...

The 4 fiddley lever things may be described in here

Google

5th one down, gouge.mabrooks.com/Section1.doc

No levers, but here is the Sgt singing a song.

Smoke.

All electrics work using smoke. Which is why they stop working when the smoke escapes. :8