We managed quite well without, thank you!

Having flown on a B-52G trip during EX. GIANT VOICE 79 from Barksdale, my conclusion was that our crew co-operation (long before the airlines invented something similar) was worth far more than anything else!

Not like Slim Pickens and the crew in Dr Strangelove then?

Sorry. Washing my mouth out with Jet-A1.

Don't swallow the FS11.


It makes your eyes water.

Asking the volunteer about toilet facilities for a 20+ hour flight to Oz / Stanley you could see it was not equipped for female flight crew...the hanging points for bags .😄

Am in The Broads in September so hope to pop into Norfolk museum and compare and contrast ..

A fluorescent starter?

I was on both Valiants and Victors for c 13 years and I never saw anyone 'puke' but I do recall twice (both of them pilots) having to ...ahem... evacuate their bowels in the ration tin, one in the UK and one from Masirah to Gan.Even with the heat turned off on the visual bomb aimers position - it would freeze eventually- but it was masks on for the rest of the sortie !

Crew chiefs sometimes did on Rangers.

One Nav Radar (no names) would puke everytime doing a 2J attack. This was a low popup to 2,500 ft. He would continue his bombing patter puking into his mask.

Another Plotter was also prone to air sickness but usually managed to hold it.

My skipper also puked on one flight before take-off.

One plotter I flew with would puke rock steady at FL410 over the Atlantic.

I remember in 1969 finding 200 cigarettes wrapped in black bodge tape in the rear crew area, I have to be honest I made no attempt to find the owner.

It was, I believe, known as "travelling first class".