Nimrod query.
 

Sorry to be a bit of an anorak, but could any ex-Nimrod driver tell me the purpose of the big red guarded button marked N, on the captains yoke of the Nimrod? Having flown the Comet with Danair, I was impressed by the Nimrod during a recent visit to Norwich Airport flying museum.

Thanks for the quick reply. I suspected it must be something to do with nuclear devices. (rather than calling for a Nescafe) . The gear down the back was very impressive, and the cockpit was a major improvement on the cockpit. I wonder if it still dripped water down your neck and paperwork during descent.

No, the water came up through the floor boards ☺

I thought the 2 buttons were C for coffee and N for no sugar

rising damp
 

Interesting that it was still damp. We always thought the problem with the Comet was something to do with the close proximity of the galley, aft of the flight deck. You literally had to hang your paperwork up to dry after descent. The semi humorous story was that BOAC had it in the TOD checklist "hand captain towel"

On a Shackleton detachment to Machrihanish about '66 or '67 ( Kinloss runway was being re-surfaced ), 206 Sqn had an open day for the Toon Council of Campbelltown. We were told that if anyone asked, the C button was for talking to the whole crew, N was for talking to the navigator.

Obviously "big red guarded button marked N" was Nuclear release. All the special wiring had to be certified ever six months(?) by a nuclear certification officer.

Distant Voice

Next time you visit Hendon, you may be surprised to see a bomb trolley with 2 x Mk57 Nuclear Depth Charges on it!!!

I have no live rounds, empty cases or variable yield thermonuclear devices in my possession, Staff !

When I was in the Air Training Corps we got to tour the Nimrod simulator and asked about the N button. We were simply told "We don't talk about that", which I think most of us understood what it was for!

That Declaration is well out of date! :8

Please tell.

Not long ago our brown friends, finding the odd live round in their kit at Stanta would drop them through the most convenient grilled repository.

Landmarc moaned that they kept turning up live rounds in the drains and garbage ☺

I was told it was named N in homage to the Knights who say "Ni".

I thought that is was some kind of James Bond thing, where the markings on the outside of the aircraft could be selected to either Nimrod or Comet, to suit the destination airfield, or foreign interceptors.

airpolice. Yet again I'm glad I keep my coffee well away from my keyboard.:D

OMG, I have to unlearn decades of 'parrot speak' ... what is it now?

About 5 times longer, with a Safety Case tacked on, presumably