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by om15 » Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:56 pm
Do you remember the old RAF MAD runway deicers, two Derwents fitted to an extension on the front of a Leyland Hippo bowser, the engines were old, unreliable and not safe, the bowser was old, unreliable and not safe, the complete assembly a nightmare.
They were really good fun, the operator of the jets sat in a small homemade wooden shed arrangement between the jets and communicated to the bowser drive through an intercom. By being disobedient the operator could open up the jets and push the bowser backwards, todays H&S would have a fit if they saw one of these.