Re: Avro Vulcan Nostalgia - more Haynes inspired stuff
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 1:02 pm
How about this thread being renamed 'V-Bomber Nostalgia'?
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Why not start a Victor thread, well I never touched one!Alisoncc wrote: ↑Sun Sep 09, 2018 6:00 pmWhat and allow the other two also-rans into our thread?![]()
The tin triangle was the ultimate in cutting edge technology in it's day, and Alison has had a love affair with them since she saw one fall out of the sky in Sept 1958. In ten days it will be sixty years ago exactly.
Remember the first time I climbed up the ladder into the beast in 1963, accompanied by the shift Snr Tech Radio, my immediate boss. He had shown me how to hook up external power, battery cart (28v) and a Houchin (115v 400Hz), and now I was sitting in the AEO's chair about to do a HF test call to Gander. Me, fresh out of training. Yeh !!! All of this was beyond my wildest dreams. Going on to a bollocking much later from the flight commander for running the ECM during the BBC TV evening news broadcast. The Station Commander no less had rung in and complained.![]()
Ian, why not start a Victor thread?
Alison
Do we assume that Cpl Murphy (as was) has now passed-on - or he has sought to sell his medals to fund his life?
I assume that he has, as at the time he was old for a Cpl, probably about 30 or so. If I'm correct, and he is alive, he will be past 90 now.