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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

18th Apr 2019, 09:30

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By macwood

Ref the rear crew scape. A crew chief mate...

Ref the rear crew scape.
A crew chief mate (Vince Braithwaite) designed a simple mod that would isolate the nosewheel retract system.
Seemed a good idea at the time having just lost 2 chiefs at...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

22nd May 2018, 22:44

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By macwood

Storey I heard and I haven't checked - was that...

Storey I heard and I haven't checked - was that President Nixon had this really good idea to encourage the Russians to put pressure on the Chinese to stop helping their Viet Nam chums during that...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

15th Jun 2015, 20:38

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By macwood

Eagle river jolly for AVM's

Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: winchester
Age: 81
Posts: 5
Eagle river jollies.
Just picked up this long lead thread about the vip trips to Eagle River.

As a coopted crew chief I was invited...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

30th May 2013, 10:29

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By macwood

Unfair to Crew chief of 361(not me!)

The crew chief had been whisked away to the BX as per usual on arrival to Goose. The handling team refuelled without ensuring front tanks filled first.Hence unusual attitude.
The ply bulkhead was...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

11th Feb 2013, 09:37

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By macwood

XM657

Yessir.....XM657 was my bird -Crew chief 65-70.
Allocated to Waddo wing -centralised servicing -Squadrons were 44-50 and-"wunderful 101" . Can't remember where 35 crept in..

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

3rd Apr 2012, 10:46

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By macwood

Eagle river jollies.

Just picked up this long lead thread about the vip trips to Eagle River.

As a coopted crew chief I was invited to "Flunky" for an AVM "Don't tell him your name P---"

No extra staff....just...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

19th Mar 2012, 09:09

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By macwood

Max rate descent

As a hairy armed crewchief and not knowing about these things,we arrived above Oha-u at about 40000 ft due to a curtain of cu-nimbs surrounding the islands.
I was perched on the ladder between the...

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